Gilson, Mary Barnett 1877-1969
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1877 · died 1969
Mary Barnett Gilson was an American economist, business executive, and government official. As the manager of Clothcraft Shops' service programs, She and her boss Richard A. Feiss considered scientific management beneficial for employee retention, implementing it in the workplace and employees' homes. After doing academic research, including a master's degree at Columbia University, she wrote Unemployment Insurance in Great Britain (1931) and What's Past Is Prologue (1940), became an economics professor at the University of Chicago, and worked as a special mediation representative for the National War Labor Board.
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Where the papers are held
The surviving papers of Gilson, Mary Barnett 1877-1969 are held at Louis Round Wilson Library; William Madison Randall Library.
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