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Mollie Ray Carroll
A white woman with side-parted straight dark hair, wearing a collared dress with one hand on a book
Carroll in the 1926 yearbook of Goucher College
BornJanuary 8, 1890
Des Moines, Iowa
Died1977
Occupation(s)Economist, college professor, settlement worker

Mollie Ray Carroll (January 8, 1890 – 1977) was an American economist and settlement worker, best known for her book Labor and Politics: The Attitude of the American Federation of Labor Toward Legislation and Politics (1923).

Early life and education[edit]

Carroll was born in Des Moines, Iowa and raised in Chicago, the daughter of Alonzo Neighton Carroll and Rachel Pauline Morgan Carroll. She received a bachelor's degree in 1911 and her master's degree in 1915, and completed a PhD in 1920, all at the University of Chicago.[1][2]

Career[edit]

Carroll was general secretary of the university YWCA in Lawrence, Kansas as a young woman.[1][3] She taught economics at Goucher College in the 1920s,[4] and was an organizer of the Business and Professional Woman's Club in Baltimore.[2][5] She was active in the League of Women Voters (LWV) at the national level,[6][7] and represented the LWV at an international suffrage meeting in Berlin in 1929.[8] She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1927 to study the system of unemployment insurance in Germany.[9][10][11][12]

In 1930 Carroll became head resident of the University of Chicago Settlement, and taught social service courses at the University of Chicago.[13] In 1931 she addressed the statewide conference of the Iowa Federation Business and Professional Woman's Clubs.[2] She was director of research at the Workers' Education Bureau of the American Federation of Labor in 1937.[14] In 1938, she was described as an industrial economist at the United States Department of Labor.[15]

Publications[edit]

Books[edit]

  • Labor and politics; the attitude of the American Federation of Labor toward legislation and politics (1923)[16]
  • Our Wants and How they are Satisfied (1930)[17]
  • Unemployment Insurance in Germany (1930)[18]
  • Unemployment Insurance in Austria (1932)[19]
  • American workers' education; its meaning, methods, and policies (1936, with Spencer Miller Jr.)[20]

Articles[edit]

  • "Some Problems in the Training of Social Workers" (1923)[21]
  • "Women and the international labor movement" (1924)[22]
  • "Legislation and the Minimum Wage" (1926)[23]
  • "Recent Improvements in German Social Statistics" (1928)[24]
  • "Two Years of German Unemployment Insurance" (1929)[25]
  • "Present-Day Social Insurance in Germany" (1929)[26]
  • "Amending the German Unemployment Insurance Act" (1930)[21]
  • "Will Germany's Social Services Survive?" (1935)[27]

Personal life[edit]

Carroll was engaged to Kentucky clergyman Dilworth R. Lupton in 1917.[1] She died in 1977.[28]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Carroll--Lupton". The Courier-Journal. 1917-03-21. p. 5. Retrieved 2022-05-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ a b c "State Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs to Begin Convention Here Friday". The Courier. 1931-05-14. p. 12. Retrieved 2022-05-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "YWCA Secretary Resigns; Miss Mollie Carroll Will Leave in June". The Daily Gazette. 1914-02-21. p. 1. Retrieved 2022-05-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Says Broening is Disregarding Labor Report; Dr. Mollie Ray Carroll, Goucher Teacher, Talks to Women Voters". The Evening Sun. 1930-04-08. p. 3. Retrieved 2022-05-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Goucher College, Donnybrook Fair (1926 yearbook): 8. via Goucher College Digital Library.
  6. ^ "Minneapolis League of Women Voters to Give June Tea at Home of Mrs. Robert Taylor". The Minneapolis Star. 1931-06-13. p. 12. Retrieved 2022-05-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Dr. Mollie Carroll on Voters' Program". The Indianapolis Star. 1933-04-23. p. 29. Retrieved 2022-05-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Baltimore Woman to go to Berlin Suffrage Parley". The Baltimore Sun. 1929-04-27. p. 3. Retrieved 2022-05-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Mollie Ray Carroll". Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  10. ^ Imel, Susan; Bersch, Gretchen T. (1 December 2014). No Small Lives: Handbook of North American Early Women Adult Educators, 1925-1950. IAP. p. 282. ISBN 978-1-62396-885-4.
  11. ^ Hoxie, Robert Franklin (1928). Trade Unionism in the United States: With an Introd. by E.H. Downey and a Supplement by Mollie Ray Carroll. Appleton.
  12. ^ "Mollie Ray Carroll, Labor and Politics, the Attitude of the American Federation of Labor Toward Legislation and Politics". The Journal of Negro History. 10 (2): 312–313. 1 April 1925. doi:10.2307/2713942. hdl:2027/inu.30000084030174. ISSN 0022-2992. JSTOR 2713942. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  13. ^ "Heads Settlement". Chicago Tribune. 1930-08-17. p. 17. Retrieved 2022-05-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Adult Education Speaker Assails Aimless Efforts". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 1937-05-14. p. 12. Retrieved 2022-05-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Baltimore Museum of Art To Open First fall Exhibition Tomorrow". The Baltimore Sun. 1938-09-04. p. 32. Retrieved 2022-05-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "Labor and politics; the attitude of the American Federation of Labor toward legislation and politics, by Mollie Ray Carroll". HathiTrust. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
  17. ^ "Our wants and how they are satisfied, by Mollie Ray Carroll ..." HathiTrust. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
  18. ^ "Unemployment insurance in Germany, by Mollie Ray Carroll". HathiTrust. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
  19. ^ "Unemployment insurance in Austria". HathiTrust. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
  20. ^ "American workers' education; its meaning, methods, and policies, by Mollie Ray Carroll and Spencer Miller, jr". HathiTrust. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
  21. ^ a b Carroll, Mollie Ray (1930-09-01). "Amending the German Unemployment Insurance Act". Social Service Review. 4 (3): 452–458. doi:10.1086/630744. ISSN 0037-7961. S2CID 154717997.
  22. ^ Carroll, Mollie Ray (1924). Women and the international labor movement. OCLC 827312245.
  23. ^ "Legislation and the Minimum Wage". The Woman's Journal. 10: 29. January 1926.
  24. ^ Carroll, Mollie Ray (1928-12-01). "Recent Improvements in German Social Statistics". Journal of the American Statistical Association. 23 (164): 386–397. doi:10.1080/01621459.1928.10503035. ISSN 0162-1459.
  25. ^ Carroll, Mollie Ray (1929-12-01). "Two Years of German Unemployment Insurance". Social Service Review. 3 (4): 563–568. doi:10.1086/630616. ISSN 0037-7961. S2CID 153529915.
  26. ^ Carroll, Mollie Ray (1929-09-01). "Present-Day Social Insurance in Germany". Social Forces. 8 (1): 126–134. doi:10.2307/2570065. ISSN 0037-7732. JSTOR 2570065.
  27. ^ Carroll, Mollie Ray (1935-06-01). "Will Germany's Social Services Survive?". Social Service Review. 9 (2): 329–330. doi:10.1086/631643. ISSN 0037-7961. S2CID 143732296.
  28. ^ "Mollie Ray Carroll (Carroll, Mollie Ray, 1890-1977)". The Online Books Page. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
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