Alice Hanson Cook (November 28, 1903 – February 7, 1998) was an activist and professor of

labor history Labor history or labour history is a sub-discipline of social history which specialises on the history of the working classes and the labor movement. Labor historians may concern themselves with issues of gender, race, ethnicity, and other fac ...

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

in the United States. At Cornell, the Alice Cook House residential college was named in her honor. Her varied life experiences included social worker, YWCA secretary, labor educator, post World War II advisor in Germany on reconstituting German labor unions, professor, university ombudsman, world acclaimed researcher, and to the very end, an activist. Cook was appointed Cornell University's first

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and worked to establish the credibility and acceptance of that office.

Autobiography

''A Lifetime of Labor: the autobiography of Alice H. Cook'' / foreword by Arlene Kaplan Daniels. 1st ed. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1998.

References

External links

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Guide to the Alice Cook Papers at the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library

Cornell University faculty 1903 births 1998 deaths Northwestern University alumni Labor historians {{US-activist-stub