Amy Hewes Explained

Amy Hewes
Birth Date:September 8, 1877
Birth Place:Baltimore, Maryland
Death Date:March 25, 1970
Death Place:Ossining, New York
Occupation:Economist, college professor
Known For:taught at Mount Holyoke College from 1905 to 1943

Amy Hewes (September 8, 1877 – March 25, 1970) was an American economist, "a pioneer in introducing the minimum wage to the United States",[1] who taught at Mount Holyoke College from 1905 to 1943.

Early life and education

Amy Hewes was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of Edwin Hewes and Martha G. Hewes.[2] Her birth was registered with the Baltimore Monthly Meeting of Friends. She earned a bachelor's degree at Goucher College in 1897. She earned a master's degree at the University of Berlin in 1900, and completed doctoral studies in sociology at the University of Chicago in 1903,[3] [4] with a dissertation titled "The Part of Invention in the Social Process."[5] Along with the Wisconsin school, the Chicago School of sociology is very influential in the academic history of disciplinary sociology and between 1892-1920 Hewes was the only woman student awarded a fellowship in the sociology department[6] However, Albion W. Small, department chair in sociology at Chicago, would recommend her not for a position in sociology or cognate disciplines but as a language instructor of German: "political science--civics, constitutional and diplomatic history, elementary economics and sociology--or something within hailing distance of these I should not hesitate--but German is a sight too wide of the mark", she wrote to Small, clarifying her choice to decline this job in a letter.

Career

Hewes taught at Mount Holyoke College from 1905 to 1943; she was promoted to the rank of professor in 1909. Among her students at Mount Holyoke were Ella Grasso, governor of Connecticut, who considered Hewes a mentor.[7] She also taught at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers.[8] [9] From 1943 to 1947, she was visiting professor at Sarah Lawrence College, University of Massachusetts, and Rockford College. She also gave lectures on labor topics for community audiences.[10]

Hewes served as executive secretary of the Massachusetts Minimum Wage Commission from 1913 to 1915. She also worked on national and international committees concerning minimum wage and wartime labor shortages.[11] [12] [13] She testified at a Senate hearing on labor education extension programs in 1948.[14] She received an award from the United States Department of Labor in 1962, "for furthering the lot of laborers throughout the U.S."[15]

Books by Hewes include Industrial Home Work (1915),[16] Women as Munition Makers: A Study of Conditions in Bridgeport, Connecticut (1917),[17] [18] and The Contribution of Economics to Social Work (1930).[19] For the United States Women's Bureau, she authored the study, Women Workers in the Third Year of the Depression (1933).[20] She also directed a published student study, Women Workers and Family Support (1925).[21] In addition to five books, she wrote over forty publications in major academic journals[22] including American Economic Review,[23] Journal of Political Economy,[24] Monthly Labor Review,[25] Social Service Review,[26] American Journal of Sociology,[27] and Current History.[28]

Personal life

Hewes lived with other Mount Holyoke faculty in South Hadley, Massachusetts, including fellow economist Alzada Comstock.[29] She died in 1970, aged 92 years, at a nursing home in Ossining, New York.[30] [31]

Notes and References

  1. News: 1970-03-26. Amy Hewes, 93, is Dead; Taught at Mt. Holyoke. 6. The Berkshire Eagle. 2021-07-03. Newspapers.com.
  2. News: 1899-03-30. Awarded to Miss Amy Hewes. 7. The Baltimore Sun. 2021-07-04. Newspapers.com.
  3. Web site: Amy Hewes. live. 2021-07-03. Mount Holyoke Historical Atlas. https://web.archive.org/web/20180102214245/https://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hatlas/communityservice/academic/amyhewes/index.htm . 2018-01-02 .
  4. Book: Madden. Kirsten. Routledge Handbook of the History of Women's Economic Thought. Dimand. Robert W.. 2018-10-03. Routledge. 978-1-317-52836-4. en.
  5. Book: Deegan, Mary Jo. Annie Marion MacLean and the Chicago Schools of Sociology, 1894-1934. 2017-07-05. Routledge. 978-1-351-53166-5. 151–153. en.
  6. Luo . Wei . Adams . Julia . Brueckner . Hannah . 2018-08-30 . The Ladies Vanish? . Comparative Sociology . 17 . 5 . 519–556 . 10.1163/15691330-12341471 . 1569-1322. free .
  7. Book: Purmont, Jon E.. Ella Grasso: Connecticut's Pioneering Governor. 2013-01-01. Wesleyan University Press. 978-0-8195-7344-5. 38–39. en.
  8. Book: Hollis, Karyn L.. Liberating Voices: Writing at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers. 2004. SIU Press. 978-0-8093-2567-2. 44–45, 121. en.
  9. Book: Higbie, Tobias. Labor's Mind: A History of Working-Class Intellectual Life. 2018-12-30. University of Illinois Press. 978-0-252-05109-8. en.
  10. News: 1935-01-27. Miss Hewes to Lecture on Labor. 10. Hartford Courant. 2021-07-04. Newspapers.com.
  11. Demond. Helen. August 1943. Amy Hewes: Professor Emeritus of Economics and Sociology. Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly. 27. 45–46. 2021-07-03. 2018-01-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20180103003041/https://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hatlas/communityservice/academic/amyhewes/hewesquartly.html. dead.
  12. Hewes. Amy. 1933-03-01. The Conference at Work. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. en. 166. 1. 86–94. 10.1177/000271623316600113. 143823284. 0002-7162.
  13. News: 1928-09-16. WOMEN TO DISCUSS LABOR.; Trade Union League to Confer at Katonah on Sept. 29.. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-07-03. 0362-4331.
  14. Book: Education, United States Congress Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare Subcommittee on. Labor Education Extension Service: Hearings Before the United States Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, Subcommittee on Education, Eightieth Congress, Second Session, on Feb. 16-20, 1948. 1948. U.S. Government Printing Office. 204–207. en.
  15. News: Negri. Gloria. 1962-03-17. Dept. of Labor Honors: Friend of the Worker. 3. The Boston Globe. 2021-07-04. Newspapers.com.
  16. Book: Hewes. Amy. Industrial home work in Massachusetts. Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics. 1915. Women's Educational and Industrial Union. en.
  17. Book: Hewes. Amy. Women as Munition Makers: A Study of Conditions in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Walter. Henriette Rose. 1917. Russell Sage Foundation. en.
  18. Book: Brown, Carrie. Rosie's Mom: Forgotten Women Workers of the First World War. 2002. UPNE. 978-1-55553-535-3. 56–60. en.
  19. Keeler. M.. 1931-06-01. THE CONTRIBUTION OF ECONOMICS TO SOCIAL WORK. By Amy Hewes. Columbia University Press. 1930. $2.00. Social Forces. 9. 4. 609. 10.1093/sf/9.4.609. 0037-7732.
  20. Book: Hewes, Amy . Women workers in the third year of the Depression : study . 1933 . U.S. G.P.O . 61884203.
  21. Book: Women Workers and Family Support: A Study Made by Students in the Economics Course at the Bryn Mawr Summer School Under the Direction of Prof. Amy Hewes. 1925. U.S. Government Printing Office. en.
  22. Book: Engerman, David C.. Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development. 2009-06-30. Harvard University Press. 978-0-674-03652-9. 137–138. en.
  23. Hewes. Amy. 1922. Guild Socialism: A Two Years' Test. The American Economic Review. 12. 2. 209–237. 1802623. 0002-8282.
  24. Hewes. Amy. 1920. Labor Conditions in Soviet Russia. Journal of Political Economy. 28. 9. 774–783. 10.1086/253301. 1820568. 153469354. 0022-3808.
  25. Hewes. Amy. 1932. Employment of Older Persons in Springfield, Mass., Department Stores. Monthly Labor Review. 35. 4. 773–781. 41814009. 0098-1818.
  26. Hewes. Amy. 1942. Lyman Terrace: A Small Housing Project. Social Service Review. 16. 1. 86–102. 10.1086/633842. 30013828. 145222734. 0037-7961.
  27. Hewes. Amy. 1923. Note on the Racial and Educational Factors in the Declining Birth-Rate. American Journal of Sociology. 29. 2. 178–187. 10.1086/213578. 2764290. 145696243. 0002-9602.
  28. Hewes. Amy. 1934. Britain's Care of the Jobless. Current History. 41. 3. 284–290. 45340163. 2641-080X.
  29. https://aspace.fivecolleges.edu/repositories/2/resources/22 Comstock papers, 1912-1969
  30. News: (The misspelling of her name was corrected in the next day's paper.). 1970-03-26. DR. AMY HUGHES, 92, OF MOUNT HOLYOKE. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-07-03. 0362-4331.
  31. Book: Deegan, Mary Jo. Women in Sociology: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook. 1991. Greenwood Press. 978-0-313-26085-8. 164–169. en.

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