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If you are grateful for Social Security, the minimum wage and Unemployment Insurance, thank the remarkable FRANCES PERKINS. As a young woman, she witnessed the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which set her on a mission for labor rights she would pursue her entire life. After working with Jane Addams in the Settlement Houses in Chicago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tapped Frances to be his Secretary of Labor. She agreed only after he accepted her demands to prioritize rights for workers, including child labor laws, safe working conditions and the 40-hour work week — becoming the first woman ever in the US presidential cabinet. Educator ROSE LOPEZ tells us the story of Frances Perkins and her long-lasting accomplishments for working people. Our storytellers share these astonishing women with us conversationally and unscripted; we fact-check afterwards and note any major discrepancies for accuracy.

Purpose This paper aims to achieve four things: to build on recent discussion on the neglect of Frances Perkins’ contribution to the understandings of management and organization (MOS); to surface selected insights by Perkins to reveal her potential as an important MOS scholar and practitioner; to explain some of the reasons for the neglect of Perkins, particularly by MOS scholars; and to interrogate the role of management history in the neglect of Perkins and her management and organizational insights. Design/methodology/approach This paper adopts a feminist post-structural lens through which the authors focus on major discourses (dominant interrelated practices and ideas) that influence how people come to define themselves, others and the character of a particular phenomenon (e.g. management history). To that end, the authors have undertaken Foucauldian discourse analysis, where they examine various sources that collectively work to present a dominant idea of a given set of practices (in this case, management and organization studies and associated histories of the field). In Foucauldian terms, these interrelated practices constitute an archive that consists of various selected materials (e.g. the Roosevelt Library and the Columbia University Oral History Collection) and, in this case, works on and by Francis Perkins. Thus, the authors analyzed various materials for their discursive value (viz. the extent to which they produced and reinforced a particular notion that excluded, neglected or ignored women from any privileged role in MOS and management history). Findings The findings are discursive, which means that the purpose is to disrupt current knowledge of MOS and management history by revealing how its practices as a field of study serve to leave certain people (i.e. Frances Perkins), influences (i.e. the impact of the “settlement ethos” on the New Deal), and social phenomena (i.e. the New Deal) out of account. Originality/value The objective is to ask for a rethink of the field definition of MOS and management history, to include broader levels of social endeavour (e.g. labour, social welfare and politics) and a range of hitherto neglected theorists, in particular Frances Perkins. Achievements in labour, industry and management of organizations, credited to the New Deal, are overlooked in MOS and management and organizational history. As Secretary of Labour, Perkins researched, lobbied and ushered in critical New Deal measures which transformed working environments for men, women and children with social welfare and labour policies that contributed to the understanding of managing and organizing in the modern world.

Labor Secretary Frances Perkins championed liberal immigration policies between 1933 and 1940. Some efforts were successful, but most were not due to political, economic, and social constraints on immigration policy making, especially in Congress. Yet, she reorganized the enforcement functions of her department when she created the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Narratives abound about the period, though few delve into this reorganization. In this article, I share an analytical framework that I developed, “policy innovation through bureaucratic reorganization,” to explain how Perkins temporarily eased the debarments, as well as deportations, of newcomers by adjusting agency resources, including staffing, budget, and infrastructure. I describe how she responded to pressures from immigration restrictionists by tightening these functions. My narrative adds to the literature on immigration policy history, which has not fully appreciated the role of bureaucratic reorganization. This research bolsters the perspective in political control theory that bureaucratic structure merits as much attention as does legislation as a tool for control.

Find out how Frances Perkins helped guide the United States out of the Great Depression.

You May Call Her Madam Secretary is the story of a woman whose anguish over the misery of workers in the emerging industrial world of her youth led her to pursue a career as a social reformer, at a time when the social justice movement was at its zenith. Frances Perkins rose higher in the United States government than any woman ever had, serving as the first woman member of the United States Cabinet for twelve years, working closely with FDR. Her career in government spanned three decades and traced the rise of social conscience in the US, from the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire to the revolutionary legislation of the New Deal, including the introduction of pensions, unemployment insurance, minimum wage, and an end to child labor. Featuring legendary Broadway and film actress Frances Sternhagen as Perkins, this engaging film presents Frances Perkins' life in her own words, retold as she herself remembered them in her letters and lectures.

Dube and Castaneda-Delgado review Cannibal Actif by Rochelle Goldberg and edited by Frances Perkins and Katherine Pickard.

This month in history - March: women's history. 1st woman U.S. presidential cabinet member; Women's History Week is celebrated; Chile's first female president; 1st observation of International Women's Day; Women's History Week becomes Women's History Month.

\"The president leads the United States. But he or she does not work alone. There is group of advisors called the Cabinet. In 1933, Frances Perkins became the U.S. secretary of labor. She was the first woman in a Cabinet. President Joe Biden honored her on December 16 [2024]. He made the Frances Perkins National Monument.\" (News-O-Matic) Read more about Frances Perkins.