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Herbert R. Northrup collection of Boulwarism research materials

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Call Number:
Ms. Coll. 532
Repository:
University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Extent:
22 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Herbert R. Northrup collection of Boulwarism research materials, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania
Date:
1904-1990 (inclusive)
Creator:
Northrup, Herbert Roof
Form:
Reports, Contracts, Clippings (information artifacts), Financial records, Correspondence, and Manuscripts, American -- 20th century
Abstract:
This collection primarily contains material relating to contract negotiations between General Electric (GE) and the International Union of Electrical Workers (IUE) and the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), and the resulting case before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Northrup used this material to examine GE's employee relations policies and the implications of Boulwarism for two articles and a subsequent book. Also included in the collection is a box of personal and financial correspondence belonging to Lemuel R. Boulware and Northrup's business correspondence when he worked in the private sector as a consultant, as well as his time at GE.

Herbert Roof Northrup was born on March 6, 1918 in Irvington, New Jersey. A graduate of Newark Academy, Northrup went on to receive his B.A. in economics from Duke University in 1939, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. Northrup was one of two scholar-athletes on Duke's championship baseball team. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1942, where he studied under noted economist Sumner H. Slichter. His dissertation examined black employment and the impact of unions and was entitled, Negro Labor and Union Policies in the South. Roof's dissertation was expanded and published in 1944 under the title, Organized Labor and the Negro.

Northrup began his professional career as an instructor at Cornell University but left after one year due to a lack of students. Unable to serve in the armed forces due to a knee injury, Northrup went to work for the War Labor Board's Tool and Die Commission in Detroit. During this time, Northrup met Eleanor Pearson, a statistician, whom he married in 1944. His position in Detroit was eliminated and Northrup was reassigned to the New York Regional Board as a senior hearing officer.

After the war, Northrup began a three year teaching stint at Columbia University and was elected to the National Board of the ACLU, serving as chairman of the Board's Committee on Civil Rights in Unions and Collective Bargaining. After parting ways with Columbia, he took the unusual step of leaving academia and taking a position with the Conference Board as a research economist in 1949. Northrup used his position at the Conference Board as a stepping stone from academia to industry, and later joined the consulting firm Ebasco as a senior consultant. Positions at Penn-Texas Corporation and General Electric soon followed.

Northrup left the corporate world in 1961 for a tenured professorship in the Department of Industry (now the Department of Management) at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He succeeded George Taylor as chairman of the department in 1964, where he remained until his retirement in 1988.

Throughout his career, Northrup was a prolific writer publishing over 30 books and numerous articles. His textbook he co-authored with Gordon Bloom, Economics of Labor Relations, went through nine editions. His works analyzed many aspects of employment practices and he was proud of the influence his works on collective bargaining had on public policy. Northrup's expertise was sought after by government officials as he served as an advisor to the secretaries of labor in the Nixon and Reagan administrations.

Northrup passed away on October 22, 2007, leaving behind his wife, five children and seven grandchildren.

Gift of Herbert R. Northrup

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Curricula vitae, 1919-1985.
Box 1 Folder 1
Financial records, 1921-1965.
Box 1 Folder 2-21
Publications, 1972-1974.
Box 1 Folder 22
Speeches, 1953-1973.
Box 1 Folder 23
Private notes on Carey, 1955.
Box 1 Folder 24
Personal photographs, 1939-1988.
Box 1 Folder 25
Bohemian Grove photographs, 1970-1979.
Box 1 Folder 26
Photographs of Boulware, 1950-circa 1970s.
Box 1 Folder 27
Retirement, 1957-1960.
Box 1 Folder 28
Obituary, 1990.
Box 1 Folder 29
Miscellaneous, 1893-1990.
Box 1 Folder 30
Syracuse Washing Machine Corporation, 1925.
Box 1 Folder 31
Carrier Corporation, 1935.
Box 1 Folder 32
Celotex Corporation, 1940.
Box 1 Folder 33
Baruch, Bernard M., 1953.
Box 1 Folder 34
Bassett, Robert C., 1973.
Box 1 Folder 35
Bethke, William, 1925.
Box 1 Folder 36
Blough, Roger M., 1972.
Box 1 Folder 37
Boulware, Judson A., 1904.
Box 1 Folder 38
Boulware, Martha Ricketts and Boulware, Judson A., 1919-1932.
Box 1 Folder 39
Cordiner, Gwen, undated.
Box 1 Folder 40
Cordiner, Ralph, 1944.
Box 1 Folder 41
Craig, Donald E., 1990.
Box 1 Folder 42
Denise, Malcolm, 1960.
Box 1 Folder 43
Donald, W.J., 1935.
Box 1 Folder 44
Ducky, 1927.
Box 1 Folder 45
Farwell, Don and Masterpool, Mike, 1969.
Box 1 Folder 46
Fishel, Leslie H. Jr., 1969.
Box 1 Folder 47
Forrestal, James, 1944-1947.
Box 1 Folder 48
Gilman, S.W., 1925.
Box 1 Folder 49
Johnson, Henry G., 1925.
Box 1 Folder 50
Jones, Reginald H., 1973, 1988.
Box 1 Folder 51
Murphy, William Beverly, 1972.
Box 1 Folder 52
Lampton, Dinwiddie Jr., 1985.
Box 1 Folder 53
McCarthy, John J., 1990.
Box 1 Folder 54
Mack, Connie, 1990.
Box 1 Folder 55
Matles, James J., 1974.
Box 1 Folder 56
Moore, Philip D., 1963.
Box 1 Folder 57
Nelson, J.C., 1925.
Box 1 Folder 58
Post, John, 1973-1974.
Box 1 Folder 59
Reagan, Ronald, 1985.
Box 1 Folder 60
Reed, W.K., 1959.
Box 1 Folder 61
Ricketts, J.S., undated.
Box 1 Folder 62
Rogers, Paul, 1977.
Box 1 Folder 63
Ruge, Fred, 1974.
Box 1 Folder 64
Rumsfeld, Donald, 1972.
Box 1 Folder 65
Seaton, Louise G., 1960.
Box 1 Folder 66
Sherman, H.B., 1925.
Box 1 Folder 67
Swope, Gerard, 1952.
Box 1 Folder 68
Walker, Coleman C., 1980.
Box 1 Folder 69
Wilson, Charles E., 1951-1959.
Box 1 Folder 70
Day, Virgil B., 1960-1990.
Box 1 Folder 71-80
Boulware, Judson A. Business correspondence, 1918.
Box 1 Folder 81
Boulware, Norma. Personal correspondence, undated.
Box 1 Folder 82

American Steele & Pump Corporation, 1958.
Box 1 Folder 83
The Bank of Salem, 1955.
Box 1 Folder 84
The Bank of Virginia, 1954-1958.
Box 2 Folder 85-88
King-Seely Thermos Corporation, 1960-1961.
Box 2 Folder 89
Literature on Boulwarism by Northrup, 1956-1966.
Box 2 Folder 90
Mallard Industries, Inc., 1951-1952.
Box 2 Folder 91
North & Judd Manufacturing Company, 1959-1962.
Box 2 Folder 92
Penn-Texas Corporation Personnel Conference, 1956.
Box 2 Folder 93
People's National Bank and Trust Company, 1957-1958.
Box 2 Folder 94
"A Summary of Various Industrial Relations Systems", 1967.
Box 2 Folder 95
Wisconsin State Nurses Association, 1952.
Box 2 Folder 96
General Electric, 1959.
Box 3 Folder unknown container
General Electric, 1960.
Box 4 Folder unknown container
General Electric, 1961.
Box 5 Folder unknown container

Negotiations with the IUE. Correspondence, 1952.
Box 6 Folder 97
Negotiations with the IUE. Correspondence, 1955.
Box 6 Folder 98
Negotiations with the IUE. Correspondence, 1958.
Box 6 Folder 99
Negotiations with the UE, 1958.
Box 6 Folder 100
Presentations on the negotiations, 1958.
Box 6 Folder 101
Carey, James B. Speeches, 1960.
Box 6 Folder 102
Photographs of strike in Bucyrus, Ohio, 1960.
Box 6 Folder 103
Note

See also box 26.

Arbitration papers, 1962.
Box 6 Folder 104
Arbitration papers, 1962.
Box 6 Folder 105
Negotiations with the IUE. Correspondence, 1963.
Box 6 Folder 106
Contract negotiations. Reports to the executive office, 1963.
Box 6 Folder 107
Contract negotiations. Information sent employees, 1963.
Box 6 Folder 108
Contract negotiations. Newspaper and radio releases, 1963.
Box 6 Folder 109-110
Negotiation News.
Box 6 Folder 111
Arbitration papers, 1963.
Box 6 Folder 112
Negotiations with the IUE. Chronological summary, 1966.
Box 6 Folder 113
Negotiations with the IUE. Correspondence, 1966.
Box 6 Folder 114
Negotiations with the IUE. Notices.
Box 6 Folder 115
Negotiations with the IUE. Presentations, 1966.
Box 6 Folder 116
Negotiations with the IUE. Reports to the executive office, 1966.
Box 6 Folder 117
Contract negotiations. Chronological summary, 1969-1970.
Box 6 Folder 118
Contract negotiations. Correspondence, 1969-1970.
Box 6 Folder 119
Contract negotiations. Planning, 1969-1970.
Box 6 Folder 120
Contract negotiations. Strike information, 1969.
Box 6 Folder 121
Negotiations with the UE, 1958.
Box 7 Folder 122-129
Negotiations with the IUE, 1958.
Box 7 Folder 130-146
Public Employee Relations Services Review, 1957.
Box 7 Folder 147
Negotiations with the IUE, 1960 July 19-August 9.
Box 8 Folder unknown container
Negotiations with the IUE, 1960 August 10-September 8.
Box 9 Folder 148-162
Negotiations with the IUE, 1960 September 20-October 18.
Box 10 Folder unknown container
Negotiations with the UE, 1960 August 16-September 29.
Box 11 Folder unknown container
Negotiations with the UE, 1960 October 4-27.
Box 12 Folder unknown container
"Employee Communications in Connection with 1960 General Electric-Union Negotiations", 1961.
Box 13 Folder 163
"The Story of General Electric's 1960 Negotiations with the IUE".
Box 13 Folder 164
"General Electric's 1960 Negotiations with the IUE...As Report in the Negotiations News", 1961.
Box 13 Folder 165
Strike Preparation Seminar, 1963.
Box 13 Folder 166-177
"The Intent of Propaganda," written by James B. Carey, 1962.
Box 13 Folder 178
Photographs of strike at Lynn, Massachusetts, 1960.
Box 13 Folder 179
Report of proceedings, 1963.
Box 14 Folder 180-181
General Counsel's Brief to Trial Examiner.
Box 14 Folder 182-203
General Electric and International Union of Electrical Workers. Intermediate Report.
Box 14 Folder 204
General Electric and International Union of Electrical Workers. Decision and order.
Box 14 Folder 205
Philip Carey Manufacturing Company and the United Automobile Workers. Decision and order.
Box 15 Folder 206
Bethlehem Steel and the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers. Decision and order, 1961.
Box 15 Folder 207-208
Bethlehem Steel Company. Decisions of the National Labor Relations Board, 1961.
Box 15 Folder 209
General Electric and International Union of Electrical Workers. Respondent's briefs.
Box 15 Folder 210-213
Injunction, 1960.
Box 15 Folder 214
General Electric and International Union of Electrical Workers. Decision and order.
Box 15 Folder 215
"National Labor Relations Board find General Electric failed to bargain in good faith".
Box 15 Folder 216
"Communications--a Neglected Key to Competitive Progress" by Virgil B. Day.
Box 15 Folder 217
"A Lawyer Looks at Employee Communication," by David L. Benetar.
Box 15 Folder 218
"The Case for Boulwarism," by Herbert R. Northrup.
Box 15 Folder 219
Statement by Virgil B. Day, 1964.
Box 15 Folder 220
Background summary--evaluation of the National Labor Relation Board's decision.
Box 15 Folder 221
"Freedom in Company Communications".
Box 15 Folder 222
"Truth in Bargaining and Free Speech".
Box 15 Folder 223
Vital Speeches of the Day, "Collective Bargaining and the 'Suffocating Blanket'".
Box 15 Folder 224
"Behind the GE-NLRB Ruling".
Box 15 Folder 225
"Statement of General Electric to the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare Concerning the NLRB Decision in the Matter of General Electric Company".
Box 15 Folder 226
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Brief of General Electric Company.
Box 15 Folder 227
General Electric and International Union of Electrical Workers. Brief for the IUE.
Box 16 Folder 228-239

General Electric Agreements, 1956-1963.
Box 17 Folder unknown container
Study of General Electric's approach to employee relations, 1967.
Box 18 Folder unknown container
Employee Relations Policy Book, 1945-1947.
Box 19 Folder 240-283

Labor law reform effort, 1954-1971.
Box 19 Folder 284-294
List of strike and union finances, 1961-1965.
Box 20 Folder 295
Management training courses.
Box 20 Folder 296
Meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, 1953.
Box 20 Folder 297
Philadelphia shipping classifications, 1963.
Box 20 Folder 298
Plant and employee community relations services, 1953-1955.
Box 20 Folder 299-301
Presentation at Hot Springs, Virginia, 1948.
Box 20 Folder 302
Price-fixing scandal at General Electric, 1959.
Box 20 Folder 303
Program from presentation of the Henry Laurence Gantt Memorial Medal, 1966.
Box 20 Folder 304
Public and employee relations services, 1956-1957.
Box 20 Folder 305-306
Relations with the automobile industry.
Box 20 Folder 307
Schenectady plant relations, 1964.
Box 20 Folder 308
Seminars to prevent union organization, 1964.
Box 20 Folder 309
Speech by Virgil B. Day at the Bell System Executive Conference.
Box 20 Folder 310
Steel strike, 1959.
Box 20 Folder 311
Writings about General Electric, 1996.
Box 20 Folder 312
Analysis of the "3916" strike, 1965.
Box 21 Folder 313-320
Annual report, 1965.
Box 21 Folder 321
At Work in Industry Today.
Box 21 Folder 322
Correspondence. Virgil B. Day, 1960-1973.
Box 21 Folder 323
Cowdrick Group.
Box 21 Folder 324
General Electric relations with the government.
Box 21 Folder 325
General Electric relations with the UE.
Box 21 Folder 327
Interim organization chart, employee relations policy division, 1950.
Box 21 Folder 328
Negotiations, 1960.
Box 21 Folder 329
Negotiations over contract with the United Steelworkers of America, 1963.
Box 21 Folder 330
Notices to all employees relations and communications.
Box 21 Folder 331
Public and employee relations merger, 1956.
Box 21 Folder 332
Public relations program, 1955.
Box 21 Folder 333
Reaction to ruling in General Electric vs. the International Union of Electrical Workers, 1969-1970.
Box 21 Folder 334
Reports to General Electric managers from Philip D. Moore, 1969-1970.
Box 21 Folder 335
Scoreboard on union representation elections in General Electric, 1959-1966.
Box 21 Folder 336
Union between the International Union of Electric Workers, 1963.
Box 21 Folder 337
Wage Stabilization Board.
Box 21 Folder 338-339

1937-1996.
Box 22 Folder 340-372

Business Week.
Box 23 Folder 373
Chamber of Commerce of the United States.
Box 23 Folder 374
Collective Bargaining in Transition.
Box 23 Folder 375
Collective Bargaining Newsletter; Collective Bargaining Today.
Box 23 Folder 376
Corporate industrial relations.
Box 23 Folder 377
Current subjects for possible class discussions.
Box 23 Folder 378
Daily Headliner.
Box 23 Folder 379
Daily labor reports, 1953-1992.
Box 23 Folder 380-381
Employee relations bulletin.
Box 23 Folder 382
Employee relations news.
Box 23 Folder 383
Employee relations newsletter.
Box 23 Folder 384
For Tour Information, 1962.
Box 23 Folder 385
General Electric Commentator.
Box 23 Folder 386
General Electric Forum.
Box 23 Folder 387
"General Electric keeps trying to make jobs better".
Box 23 Folder 388
General Electric News.
Box 23 Folder 389
General Electric relations newsletter.
Box 23 Folder 390
General Electric Scrapbook HIstory with commentary.
Box 23 Folder 391
Information: Employee Relations.
Box 24 Folder 392
Information: Union Relations.
Box 24 Folder 393
IUE News.
Box 24 Folder 394
IUE Puts the Spotlight on GE.
Box 24 Folder 395
John Herling's labor letter.
Box 24 Folder 396
Labor.
Box 24 Folder 397
Labor Law Newsletter.
Box 24 Folder 398
Labor Trends.
Box 24 Folder 399
Modern Union Policy...Co-ordinate.
Box 24 Folder 400
National Association of Manufacturers publications.
Box 24 Folder 401
"Negotiations Developments," Philip D. Moore, 1969-1970.
Box 24 Folder 402-407
Negotiation News, 1963-1970.
Box 24 Folder 408-411
PR Reporter.
Box 24 Folder 412
Public & Employee Relations News.
Box 24 Folder 413
Public Relations Newsletter.
Box 24 Folder 414
Relations Reviews.
Box 24 Folder 415
UE News.
Box 24 Folder 416
Union News.
Box 24 Folder 417
Unity.
Box 24 Folder 418
U.S.A. Volume XII.
Box 24 Folder 419

Frigidaire retail supervisor's handbook; Brief for the NLRB in Bethlehem Steel v. NLRB; Boulware's personal diary.
Box 25 Folder unknown container
Oversized photograph of 1960 strike in Bucyrus, Ohio; clipping, 1956-1960.
Box 26 Folder unknown container

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