Management and Men; a Record of New Steps in Industrial Relations
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Personnel and Employment Problems in Industrial Management, Vol. 65: The Annals; May, 1916 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Personnel and Employment Problems in Industrial Management, Vol. 65: The Annals; May, 1916
In the same interval labor, at least Skilled labor, has developed in average education, in average intelligence, and in the power to think, in aspirations and workingmen have become ambitious to live fuller lives in cleaner homes, to educate their children better. The value of this change to society and industry is and Should be equal. Yet business has been more and more tempted to regard labor as a commodity, and a most vexatious and recalcitrant commodity. Moreover, labor has become highly organized, not for cooperation with capital, but in self-defense against capital, to fight capital. Capital in the past has in some instances taught labor selfishness and certain forms of tyranny. Labor has learned its power to threaten and even to paralyze industry. Indefinite and irrespon sible ownership, expansion in scale of operations, failures in handling of men - these have set modern commerce and industry their present greatest and most pressing problems.
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Fourth, the voc...)
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Fourth, the vocational director should, in cooperation with the Superintendent of Schools, or any person whom he may appoint, arrange vocational lectures for the members of the graduating classes.
Fifth, the Bureau believes that school masters and teachers should be definitely trained to give vocational counsel, and therefore, that it is advisable for this vocational director, in cooperation with the Superintendent of Schools, to establish a series of conferences to which certain selected teachers and masters should be invited on condition that they will agree in turn definitely to do vocational counseling with their own pupils.
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Meyer Bloomfield was an American lawyer and social worker. He was professor of vocational guidance at the College of the City of New York.
Background
Meyer Bloomfield was born on February 11, 1878, in Bucharest, Romania, the second of four children and eldest of three sons of Maurice and Bertha (Pastmantir) Bloomfield. When he was four years old the family emigrated to the United States and settled on New York City's lower East Side, where the father taught English to classes of immigrants.
Education
As a youth Bloomfield participated in activities at the Neighborhood Guild and the University Settlement, the beginning of his later interest in social work and civic affairs. He worked his way through the College of the City of New York (A. B. , 1899) and then went on to Harvard, where he received a second A. B. degree in 1901. From 1903 to 1905 he attended the Boston University Law School and in 1905 was admitted to the bar. One of his teachers at the law school was Frank Parsons [q. v. ], a lawyer with a broad interest in civic and social reform.
Career
Following his graduation from Harvard, Bloomfield became the first director of the Civic Service House in Boston's North End, a settlement house financed by Pauline Agassiz Shaw and designed to emphasize the civic interests, rights, and duties of the young immigrants it aspired to serve. He remained as director until 1910. In 1905 Parsons launched at the Civic Service House an evening curriculum in liberal-arts subjects for the benefit of youthful immigrants who worked during the day - the "Breadwinners' College" - and in January 1908, with financial support from Mrs. Shaw, he added a vocational guidance office, the Vocation Bureau of Boston. In 1910 Bloomfield became director of the Vocation Bureau, the beginning of his own notable work in this field. In an increasingly complex industrial society, where many children went directly to work from elementary school, there was a great need for vocational guidance.
During the next eight years, under Bloomfield's direction, the Vocation Bureau did valuable pioneer work in issuing reports on conditions of work and job requirements in various industries. It helped to institute counseling on the choice of a vocation in the Boston public schools, one of the first school systems to provide this service. The Bureau also stimulated the development of a nationwide vocational guidance movement. The first national convention of those interested in this field was held in Boston in 1910, and the National Vocational Guidance Association was formally organized in 1913.
Bloomfield's work in vocational guidance led him into the closely related fields of personnel management and labor relations. He had early felt the need of tying in his vocational work with the employment departments of business and industrial concerns. It was apparently out of his contacts with such departments in the Boston area that a local Employment Managers' Association was organized in 1912 to discuss such matters as the selection, training, efficiency, and advancement of employees.
In 1910, working in association with Lincoln Filene, Henry Moskowitz, and Louis D. Brandeis, he played an important role in bringing about the settlement of the great garment workers' strike in New York City. In 1917 Bloomfield entered war work with the Emergency Fleet Corporation, becoming chief of its industrial service department in 1918. Here he organized the work of building up the manpower needed in the rapidly expanded wartime shipyards. At the close of the war he joined his brother Daniel in Boston in forming the firm of Bloomfield and Bloomfield, industrial relations consultants, and edited their periodical Industrial Relations: Bloomfield's Labor Digest. The partnership ended in 1923, and thereafter Meyer Bloomfield made his home in New York City, where he practised law, specializing in immigration laws, and carried on consultation work in the field of industrial relations. On several occasions he was called upon for special government service, as in 1922, when he went to Russia as a confidential observer for President Harding. He died in New York City of cancer and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Westchester County, New York.
Bloomfield was a friendly, energetic man of high ethical ideals.
Connections
Meyer Bloomfield was married to the concert singer, Sylvia Palmer, on June 20, 1902. They had three children: Catherine Pauline, Joyce Thérèse, and Lincoln Palmer.