{"id":13,"date":"2017-04-28T14:56:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T14:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ssc-ywca-recordshistory\/?p=13"},"modified":"2017-05-13T02:47:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T02:47:36","slug":"history-and-work-of-the-household-employee-subcommittee-of-the-national-industrial-committee-of-the-ywca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ssc-ywca-recordshistory\/2017\/04\/28\/history-and-work-of-the-household-employee-subcommittee-of-the-national-industrial-committee-of-the-ywca\/","title":{"rendered":"The Household Employment Subcommittee of the YWCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Household Employment Subcommittee of the National Industrial Committee of the YWCA (The Subcommittee) was in existence from 1929-1940. The Subcommittee, like the NCHE, created contracts specifying minimum standards in order to mediate the employer-employee relationship. They envisioned harmony between workers and employers by \u201ceducating employers about how management responsibilities would balance training programs for workers and make the home a model workplace\u201d (Palmer, 116).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Each state\u2019s committee operated differently, offering model contracts based on state minimum wages, and different types of classes for domestic workers seeking work. They also did a lot of work collecting data to gauge what the average workday and salaries were. The contracts that the Subcommittee put forth were met with a lot of push back from housewives who did not want interference from a third party in their home, similar to the experience of the NCHE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This organization is extremely similar to the NCHE, with goals of using contracts to mediate the employee-employer relationship. The Subcommittee fell short because in an effort to find domestic workers jobs they tried to make them appealing to employers instead of advocating for domestic worker\u2019s rights. The documents from the state Subcommittees can be found in boxes 493, 494 and 495 in the SSC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Palmer, Phyllis. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Domesticity and Dirt: Housewives and Domestic Servants in the United States, 1920-1945. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Household Employment Subcommittee of the National Industrial Committee of the YWCA (The Subcommittee) was in existence from 1929-1940. The Subcommittee, like the NCHE, created contracts specifying minimum standards in order to mediate the employer-employee relationship. They envisioned harmony between workers and employers by \u201ceducating employers about how management responsibilities would balance training programs for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":686,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,3,7],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-employee-employer-relations","tag-nche","tag-trainings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ssc-ywca-recordshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ssc-ywca-recordshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ssc-ywca-recordshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ssc-ywca-recordshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ssc-ywca-recordshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ssc-ywca-recordshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ssc-ywca-recordshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ssc-ywca-recordshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ssc-ywca-recordshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ssc-ywca-recordshistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}