Mollie Ray Carroll (January 8, 1890 – 1977) was an American economist and settlement worker, best known for her book Labor and Politics: The Attitude of the American Federation of Labor Toward Legislation and Politics (1923).

Mollie Ray Carroll
A white woman with side-parted straight dark hair, wearing a collared dress with one hand on a book
Carroll in the 1926 yearbook of Goucher College
BornJanuary 8, 1890
Des Moines, Iowa
Died1977
Occupation(s)Economist, college professor, settlement worker

Early life and education edit

Carroll was born in Des Moines, Iowa and raised in Chicago, the daughter of Alonzo Neighton Carroll and Rachel Pauline Morgan Carroll. She received a bachelor's degree in 1911 and her master's degree in 1915, and completed a PhD in 1920, all at the University of Chicago.[1][2]

Career edit

Carroll was general secretary of the university YWCA in Lawrence, Kansas as a young woman.[1][3] She taught economics at Goucher College in the 1920s,[4] and was an organizer of the Business and Professional Woman's Club in Baltimore.[2][5] She was active in the League of Women Voters (LWV) at the national level,[6][7] and represented the LWV at an international suffrage meeting in Berlin in 1929.[8] She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1927 to study the system of unemployment insurance in Germany.[9][10][11][12]

In 1930 Carroll became head resident of the University of Chicago Settlement, and taught social service courses at the University of Chicago.[13] In 1931 she addressed the statewide conference of the Iowa Federation Business and Professional Woman's Clubs.[2] She was director of research at the Workers' Education Bureau of the American Federation of Labor in 1937.[14] In 1938, she was described as an industrial economist at the United States Department of Labor.[15]

Publications edit

Books edit

  • Labor and politics; the attitude of the American Federation of Labor toward legislation and politics (1923)[16]
  • Our Wants and How they are Satisfied (1930)[17]
  • Unemployment Insurance in Germany (1930)[18]
  • Unemployment Insurance in Austria (1932)[19]
  • American workers' education; its meaning, methods, and policies (1936, with Spencer Miller Jr.)[20]

Articles edit

  • "Some Problems in the Training of Social Workers" (1923)[21]
  • "Women and the international labor movement" (1924)[22]
  • "Legislation and the Minimum Wage" (1926)[23]
  • "Recent Improvements in German Social Statistics" (1928)[24]
  • "Two Years of German Unemployment Insurance" (1929)[25]
  • "Present-Day Social Insurance in Germany" (1929)[26]
  • "Amending the German Unemployment Insurance Act" (1930)[21]
  • "Will Germany's Social Services Survive?" (1935)[27]

Personal life edit

Carroll was engaged to Kentucky clergyman Dilworth R. Lupton in 1917.[1] She died in 1977.[28]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "Carroll--Lupton". The Courier-Journal. 1917-03-21. p. 5. Retrieved 2022-05-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ a b c "State Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs to Begin Convention Here Friday". The Courier. 1931-05-14. p. 12. Retrieved 2022-05-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "YWCA Secretary Resigns; Miss Mollie Carroll Will Leave in June". The Daily Gazette. 1914-02-21. p. 1. Retrieved 2022-05-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Says Broening is Disregarding Labor Report; Dr. Mollie Ray Carroll, Goucher Teacher, Talks to Women Voters". The Evening Sun. 1930-04-08. p. 3. Retrieved 2022-05-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Goucher College, Donnybrook Fair (1926 yearbook): 8. via Goucher College Digital Library.
  6. ^ "Minneapolis League of Women Voters to Give June Tea at Home of Mrs. Robert Taylor". The Minneapolis Star. 1931-06-13. p. 12. Retrieved 2022-05-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Dr. Mollie Carroll on Voters' Program". The Indianapolis Star. 1933-04-23. p. 29. Retrieved 2022-05-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Baltimore Woman to go to Berlin Suffrage Parley". The Baltimore Sun. 1929-04-27. p. 3. Retrieved 2022-05-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Mollie Ray Carroll". Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  10. ^ Imel, Susan; Bersch, Gretchen T. (1 December 2014). No Small Lives: Handbook of North American Early Women Adult Educators, 1925-1950. IAP. p. 282. ISBN 978-1-62396-885-4.
  11. ^ Hoxie, Robert Franklin (1928). Trade Unionism in the United States: With an Introd. by E.H. Downey and a Supplement by Mollie Ray Carroll. Appleton.
  12. ^ "Mollie Ray Carroll, Labor and Politics, the Attitude of the American Federation of Labor Toward Legislation and Politics". The Journal of Negro History. 10 (2): 312–313. 1 April 1925. doi:10.2307/2713942. hdl:2027/inu.30000084030174. ISSN 0022-2992. JSTOR 2713942. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  13. ^ "Heads Settlement". Chicago Tribune. 1930-08-17. p. 17. Retrieved 2022-05-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Adult Education Speaker Assails Aimless Efforts". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 1937-05-14. p. 12. Retrieved 2022-05-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Baltimore Museum of Art To Open First fall Exhibition Tomorrow". The Baltimore Sun. 1938-09-04. p. 32. Retrieved 2022-05-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "Labor and politics; the attitude of the American Federation of Labor toward legislation and politics, by Mollie Ray Carroll". HathiTrust. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
  17. ^ "Our wants and how they are satisfied, by Mollie Ray Carroll ..." HathiTrust. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
  18. ^ "Unemployment insurance in Germany, by Mollie Ray Carroll". HathiTrust. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
  19. ^ "Unemployment insurance in Austria". HathiTrust. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
  20. ^ "American workers' education; its meaning, methods, and policies, by Mollie Ray Carroll and Spencer Miller, jr". HathiTrust. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
  21. ^ a b Carroll, Mollie Ray (1930-09-01). "Amending the German Unemployment Insurance Act". Social Service Review. 4 (3): 452–458. doi:10.1086/630744. ISSN 0037-7961. S2CID 154717997.
  22. ^ Carroll, Mollie Ray (1924). Women and the international labor movement. OCLC 827312245.
  23. ^ "Legislation and the Minimum Wage". The Woman's Journal. 10: 29. January 1926.
  24. ^ Carroll, Mollie Ray (1928-12-01). "Recent Improvements in German Social Statistics". Journal of the American Statistical Association. 23 (164): 386–397. doi:10.1080/01621459.1928.10503035. ISSN 0162-1459.
  25. ^ Carroll, Mollie Ray (1929-12-01). "Two Years of German Unemployment Insurance". Social Service Review. 3 (4): 563–568. doi:10.1086/630616. ISSN 0037-7961. S2CID 153529915.
  26. ^ Carroll, Mollie Ray (1929-09-01). "Present-Day Social Insurance in Germany". Social Forces. 8 (1): 126–134. doi:10.2307/2570065. ISSN 0037-7732. JSTOR 2570065.
  27. ^ Carroll, Mollie Ray (1935-06-01). "Will Germany's Social Services Survive?". Social Service Review. 9 (2): 329–330. doi:10.1086/631643. ISSN 0037-7961. S2CID 143732296.
  28. ^ "Mollie Ray Carroll (Carroll, Mollie Ray, 1890-1977)". The Online Books Page. Retrieved 2022-05-16.