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AFSCME Program Development Department Records, Part 1 and 2
Collection
Identifier: LR002203
Abstract
The AFSCME Program Development Department was created in January of 1973 to deal with matters such as health care, the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill, employee protections, career development, and sex discrimination. It was funded by federal grant money until 1975 when the funds ran out, the department was disbanded, and its several functions were taken over by other AFSCME departments.
The records in Part I reflect the Department's concerns with women's issues, sex...
Dates:
1964 - 1977; Majority of material found within 1973 - 1975
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
AFSCME Public Policy Analysis Department Records
Collection
Identifier: LR001994
Abstract
Part 1 of the AFSCME Public Policy Analysis Department Records focuses on Deinstitutionalization, particularly at Wayne County General Hospital (WCGH). The hospital complex was located in western Wayne County, Michigan, approximately 16 miles west of downtown Detroit. Deinstitutionalization represented a major change in philosophy for mental health treatment delivery and was the term given to the process whereby mentally ill patients were moved out of large public hospitals and into smaller...
Dates:
1963 - 1984; Majority of material found within 1973 - 1981
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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- Affirmative action 1
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- Career development 1
- Children--Hospitals 1
- Civil rights 1
- Detroit (Mich.) 1
- Health care reform 1
- Hospitals -- -- Administration 1
- Hospitals -- Employees 1
- Labor unions -- Organizing 1
- Pay equity 1
- Privatization 1
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- Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
- Coalition of Labor Union Women (U.S.) 1
- United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964. 1
- United States. Education Amendments of 1972. Title IX. 1
- Women's Equity Action League 1
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