Gladys Louise Palmer (1895 – June 27, 1967) was an American social statistician who "gained worldwide attention for her research on manpower problems and labor mobility" and for her work on the standardization of labor statistics.[1]
Education and career edit
Palmer earned a bachelor's degree from Barnard College in 1917, studied for a master's degree at Bryn Mawr College from 1917 to 1918, as Carola Woerishoffer Scholar in Social Economy and Social Research,[2] and completed a Ph.D. in 1924 at the University of Pennsylvania.[1]
She became an instructor in economics at Vassar College[1][3] and Hollins College, and then moved to the Industrial Research Unit of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1931. By 1953 she was Research Professor of Industry and director of the Industrial Research Unit at the Wharton School. Beginning in the 1930s, she was also a frequent consultant for various federal agencies in Washington DC.[1]
Books edit
Palmer's books include:[1]
- Union Tactics and Economic Change: A Case Study of Three Philadelphia Textile Unions (de Gruyter, 1932)[4]
- I am a Woman Worker: A Scrapbook of Autobiographies (edited with Andria Taylor Hourwich, Affiliated Schools for Workers, 1936)
- Labor Mobility In Six Cities: A Report On The Survey Of Patterns And Factors In Labor Mobility, 1940-1950 (Social Science Research Council, 1954)[5]
- Philadelphia Workers in a Changing Economy (de Gruyter, 1956)[6]
- The Reluctant Job Changer: Studies in Work Attachments and Aspirations (with Herbert S. Parnes, Richard C. Wilcock, Mary W. Herman, and Carol P. Brainerd, de Gruyter, 1962)[7]
Awards and honors edit
In 1946, Palmer was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[8]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e McNally, Gertrude Bancroft (1967), "Gladys L. Palmer, 1895-1967", The American Statistician, 21 (5): 35, doi:10.1080/00031305.1967.10479855, JSTOR 2682661
- ^ Graduate students in the Department of Social Economy and Social Research, 1915–1919, Bryn Mawr College, 1919, p. 62
- ^ Annual Catalogue, Vassar College, 1920, p. 22
- ^ Review of Union Tactics and Economic Change: S. Perlman (December 1934), Journal of Political Economy 42 (6): 849, doi:10.1086/254721
- ^ Reviews of Labor Mobility In Six Cities: Richard A. Lester (February 1955), Journal of Political Economy 63 (1): 89–90, doi:10.1086/257648, JSTOR 1826795; Sara Smith (May 1955), Social Forces 33 (4): 403, doi:10.2307/2573024; Robert L. Raimon (October 1955), ILR Review 9 (1): 148–149, doi:10.1177/001979395500900118; Witt Bowden (1955), Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 298 (1): 201, doi:10.1177/000271625529800142.
- ^ Reviews of Philadelphia Workers in a Changing Economy: Evan B. Alderfer (October 1956), The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 80 (4): 544–545, JSTOR 20088930; Howard W. Johnson (December 1956), Journal of the American Statistical Association 51 (276): 699–700, doi:10.2307/2281521; David L. Kaplan (January 1957), American Journal of Sociology 62 (4): 422–423, doi:10.1086/222044, JSTOR 2772888; N. Arnold Tolles (January 1957), ILR Review 10 (2): 330–331, doi:10.1177/001979395701000218; Hyman L. Lewis (February 1957), Monthly Labor Review 80 (2): 213–218, JSTOR 41833694; Vol. 80, No. 2 (February 1957), pp. 213-218 Richard C. Wilcock (April 1957), Journal of Political Economy 65 (2): 173–174, doi:10.1086/257910.
- ^ Reviews of The Reluctant Job Changer: Donald F. Roy (August 1963), Science 141 (3581): 624, doi:10.1126/science.141.3581.624; Gordon S. Watkins (March 1964), The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 352: 179, JSTOR 1035439; H. Ellsworth Steele (April 1964), ILR Review 17 (3): 490–492, doi:10.1177/001979396401700312.
- ^ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on 2017-12-01, retrieved 2017-11-03