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Dorothea de Schweinitz

Dorothea de Schweinitz (September 5, 1891 – November 1980) was an American social worker who specialized in employment programs. She was president of the National Vocational Guidance Association from 1925 to 1926, and was a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board, based in St. Louis, Missouri.

Dorothea de Schweinitz
A young white woman with dark hair in a bouffant updo, wearing eyeglasses and a high-collared white blouse with lace trim; also a strand of dark beads
Dorothea de Schweinitz, from the 1912 yearbook of Smith College
BornSeptember 5, 1891
Nazareth, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedNovember 1980
Washington, D.C., U.S.
OccupationSocial worker
RelativesLewis David de Schweinitz (great-grandfather)
Louise de Schweinitz Darrow (sister)
Daniel C. Darrow (brother-in-law)

Early life and education edit

Schweinitz was born in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Paul de Schweinitz and Mary Catherine Daniel de Schweinitz. Her father was one of six bishops of the Moravian Church in the United States, and a descendant of Nicolaus Zinzendorf.[1] Her grandfather Robert William de Schweinitz was a noted educator, and her great-grandfather was botanist Lewis David de Schweinitz.[2] She graduated from Smith College in 1912.[3] She traveled and studied in Germany in 1913. She earned a master's degree from Columbia University in 1929.[4]

Career edit

Schweinitz worked for the YWCA in New York. She developed an employment service for students in the Philadelphia public schools. She was associated with the Industrial Research Department at the Wharton School. She was president of the Philadelphia Vocational Guidance Association from 1924 to 1925.[4] She was president of the National Vocational Guidance Association from 1925 to 1926, and from 1937 to 1941 she was a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board, based in St. Louis, Missouri.[5][6] She worked with the Office of Production Management and the War Production Board during World War II.[7][8]

Schweinitz lived in Georgetown from 1942, and was active in historic preservation there.[9] She was chair of the fine arts committee of the Georgetown Citizens Association when she testified before a congressional hearing in 1966.[10] She was awarded the Smith College Medal in 1974.[4] She and her sister Helena Couch donated an ancestor's embroidered handkerchief to the Moravian Museum in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.[11]

Publications edit

  • "The Technique of the Placement of Juvenile Workers" (1921)[12]
  • "The Place of Social Case Work in the Junior Employment Service" (1922)[13]
  • "Practical Problems of the Placement Office" (1923)[14]
  • "The Junior Employment Service" (1925)[15]
  • "Following Up the Junior Worker" (1925)[16]
  • How Workers Find Jobs: A Study of Four Thousand Hosiery Workers in Philadelphia (1932)[17]
  • "Social Legislation and the Family Case Worker" (1935)[18]
  • "Youth—Vocational Guidance—Labor: Labor Conditions Affecting the Young Worker" (1939)[19]
  • Occupations in Retail Stores
  • "Joint Leadership in a Democracy" (1944)[20]
  • Labor and Management in a Common Enterprise (1949)
  • Labor-Management Consultation in the Factory: The Experience of England, Sweden and Germany (1966)

Personal life edit

She died in 1980, at the age of 89, in Washington, D.C. Her papers and those of her sister Louise de Schweinitz Darrow are in the Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History at Smith College.[4]

References edit

  1. ^ "Paul de Schweinitz, a Moravian Bishop; Ex-Head of Foreign Missions Was a Seminary Trustee". The New York Times. February 9, 1940. p. 24. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
  2. ^ Kirkman, Roger. "Schweinitz, Robert William de". NCPedia. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
  3. ^ Smith College, Class of 1912 (1912 yearbook): 47; via Internet Archive.
  4. ^ a b c d "Collection: Dorothea de Schweinitz and Louise de Schweinitz (Darrow) papers". Smith College Finding Aids. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
  5. ^ "Record for Labor Office". St. Joseph News-Press. 1940-07-07. p. 2. Retrieved 2024-04-24 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Miss De Schweinitz Leaving NLRB Post". The St. Louis Star and Times. 1941-11-26. p. 26. Retrieved 2024-04-24 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Labor Board Director Here to Take Post with OPM". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 1941-11-26. p. 21. Retrieved 2024-04-24 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Class Notes". The Smith Alumnae Quarterly. 33 (4): 257. August 1942.
  9. ^ Mitchell, Mary (1969). "The Thomas Sim Lee Corner in Georgetown and Its Preservation". Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C. 69/70: 513–514. ISSN 0897-9049. JSTOR 40067726.
  10. ^ United States Congress House Committee on the District of Columbia (1966). Restore Georgetown Public Market: Hearings. pp. 31–33.
  11. ^ "Century-old styles featured at museum". The Morning Call. 1988-10-06. p. 142. Retrieved 2024-04-24 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ International Association of Public Employment Services (1921). Proceedings of the American Association of Public Employment Offices. pp. 120–123.
  13. ^ De Schweinitz, Dorothea (June 1922). "The Place of Social Case Work in the Junior Employment Service". The Family. 3 (4): 85–89. doi:10.1177/104438942200300406. ISSN 0887-400X.
  14. ^ de Schweinitz, Dorothea (March 1923). "Practical Problems of the Placement Office". National Vocational Guidance Bulletin. 1 (8): 124–128. doi:10.1002/j.2164-5876.1923.tb00067.x. ISSN 2164-5825.
  15. ^ De Schweinitz, Dorothea (November 1925). "The Junior Employment Service". The Vocational Guidance Magazine. 4 (2): 68–70. doi:10.1002/j.2164-5884.1925.tb00774.x. ISSN 2164-5833.
  16. ^ Schweinitz, Dorothea de (May 1925). "Following Up the Junior Worker". The Vocational Guidance Magazine. 3 (8): 255–262. doi:10.1002/j.2164-5884.1925.tb00249.x. ISSN 2164-5833.
  17. ^ Schweinitz, Dorothea de (2016-11-11). How Workers Find Jobs: A Study of Four Thousand Hosiery Workers in Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-1-5128-1548-1.
  18. ^ De Schweinitz, Dorothea (January 1935). "Social Legislation and the Family Case Worker". The Family. 15 (9): 309–316. doi:10.1177/104438943501500906. ISSN 0887-400X.
  19. ^ De Schweinitz, Dorothea (April 1939). "Youth—Vocational Guidance—Labor: Labor Conditions Affecting the Young Worker". Occupations: The Vocational Guidance Journal. 17 (7): 613–618. doi:10.1002/j.2164-5892.1939.tb01898.x. ISSN 2164-5841.
  20. ^ de Schweinitz, Dorothea (1944). "Joint Leadership in a Democracy". The Journal of Educational Sociology. 17 (7): 417–420. doi:10.2307/2262550. ISSN 0885-3525. JSTOR 2262550.
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