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Photograph, Harrison Williams at the opening of the Stock Brokerage Clerk Program, Newark (N.J.) Manpower Training Skills Center, September 1968.
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Crossroads: Harrison A. Williams, Jr. and Great Society Liberalism, 1959-1981
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Weimer, Larry.
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"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.
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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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)
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Lee, Soo Jung
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http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/manuscripts/williams01f.html
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Inventory to the Papers of Harrison A. Williams, Jr.
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Williams, Harrison A., Jr., 1919-2001
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Photograph, Harrison Williams at the opening of the Stock Brokerage Clerk Program, Newark (N.J.) Manpower Training Skills Center, September 1968.
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Crossroads: Harrison A. Williams, Jr. and Great Society Liberalism, 1959-1981
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box 312, folder 192; MC 002
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Crossroads: Harrison A. Williams, Jr. and Great Society Liberalism, 1959-1981
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Special Collections and University University Archives Gallery and Gallery '50
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The workplace was a central concern of Williams’ legislative efforts throughout his career. For the Great Society, the workplace, and the employment it offered, were cornerstones for the elimination of poverty and the social ills rooted in poverty. Among other matters, Williams’ legislation aimed at improving working conditions, eliminating discriminatory practices, and building a skilled workforce. 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. Migratory farm labor was a particular focus of Williams’ legislation. Displayed are examples of New Jersey labor’s interest in and, at times, tension over Williams’ legislative initiatives.
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Photograph, Williams at the opening session of a training program in Newark, N.J., September 1968.
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