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TitlePhotograph, Harrison Williams at the opening of the Stock Brokerage Clerk Program, Newark (N.J.) Manpower Training Skills Center, September 1968.
Date Created1968-09
SubjectWilliams, Harrison A., Jr., 1919-2001
Extent1 p.
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3WH2MXN
LanguageEnglish
Shelving Notebox 312, folder 192; MC 002
Data Life Cycle Event(s)
   Type: Digital exhibition
   Label: Crossroads: Harrison A. Williams, Jr. and Great Society Liberalism, 1959-1981
   Curator: Weimer, Larry.
   Project manager: Radick, Caryn .
   Name: Labor
Data Life Cycle Event(s)
   Type: Finding aid
   Label: Inventory to the Papers of Harrison A. Williams, Jr.
   Date: 2008-01
   Date: 2009-02
   Detail: updated
   Creator: Lee, Soo Jung
   Creator: Weimer, Larry
   Creator: Zarrillo, John
   Name: Inventory to the Papers of Harrison A. Williams, Jr.
   Reference: http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/manuscripts/williams01f.html
Additional Detail(s)
Type: Exhibition section
Name: Labor
Detail: "I certainly will do everything I can to push for more and better laws to protect the working man who is the backbone of our country." Harrison A. Williams, Jr., Remarks before the N.J. State AFL-CIO Legislative Conference, 24 March 1969.

With education positioning more Americans to be gainfully employed and more sophisticated participants in the nation's economy, it was essential that workplace practices be modified to support the Great Society's social goals. Williams sponsored legislation throughout his career aimed at ensuring justice for Americans in employment matters. Traditional practices of employment discrimination based on age, sex, race, and other factors were outlawed. Exploitative or abusive workplace practices were at least mitigated through legislation establishing minimum wages, occupational safety and health standards, and private pension protections. Williams advocated an active role for the federal government—via program and project funding and regulation—in ensuring that these broad social goals were accomplished within the essential framework of private enterprise. In response to cyclical economic downturns, government spending on projects and public employment were viewed as correctives and as productive alternatives to direct welfare payments.
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Type: Exhibition caption
Detail: Williams recommended that Wall Street firms facing chronic openings for brokerage clerk jobs seek to fill those positions with the unemployed from Newark. Government funding was provided and the securities industry did the training at a New Jersey state government agency location. This model, consisting of federal and state funding and facilitating resources combined with private expertise, was one often used in the Great Society programs. (Photo from State of New Jersey, Department of Education, Newark Manpower Training Skills Center)
Additional Detail(s)
Type: Finding aid
Name: Inventory to the Papers of Harrison A. Williams, Jr.
Detail: Finding aid provides description of materials in the Harrison A. Williams collection
CollectionCrossroads: Harrison A. Williams, Jr. and Great Society Liberalism, 1959-1981
Organization NameRutgers University. Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University. Libraries. Special Collections
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