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Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

  • MS-13-86
  • Fonds
  • 1837-2020, predominant 1904-2008

Fonds contains records created and collected primarily by Alexander H. Leighton, with some by Jane Leighton Murphy. Documents span from Leighton's studies at Princeton, Cambridge, and Johns Hopkins univerities, through his government employment in World War II, and his teaching career at Cornell, Dalhousie, and Harvard. The majority of records are related to the 1961 Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project and the 1963 Study on the Role of Women, both based in Nigeria, and the Stirling County Study, based in Nova Scotia. Record types include correspondence, manuscripts, grant applications, reports, photographs and slides, medical and academic records, method and guidebooks, reviews, offprints and publications, teaching and course materials, and surveys and interview transcripts.

A sous-fonds contains records documenting the migration of Alexander Leighton's parents from Ireland to the United States and their subsequent life in Philadelphia. The sous-fonds contains extensive correspondence between extended family members over the course of a century, as well as photographs, diaries, wills, family trees, memoirs, and Alexander Leighton's personal correspondence.

Murphy, Jane Leighton

The energy pattern

File contains scripts for lectures numbered 2 to 7, all related to energy patterns. Titles include "The energy pattern," "The energy pattern and dynamic equilibrium," "Types of relationships between energy patterns," "Introduction to principles of human relations," "Dynamic equilibrium and the individual human being," and "The dynamic equilibrium of the individual, continued."

Incentives for productivity

File contains 7 lectures related to productivity. Titles include "A purpose for production," "Properties of industrial hierarchies," "A theory of economic incentive," "Economic incentives and system of belief," "The logics of management," "The worker's world," "The flight of the time study man," "Man and money."

Boulton, Alan A.

File contains correspondence with or about Alan A. Boulton. Also includes a script for a presentation by Alexander Leighton in Saskatoon, titled "True and treated prevalence rates in geographically defined populations."

Human relations

File contains scripts for lectures numbered 1 to 10. Titles include "Continued discussion of the nature of scientific thinking," "Equilibrium analysis," "The role of symbols," "Systems of belief," "Equilibria of individuals," "Union-management relations," "Union-management relations, continued: pressure on the foremen," "Union-management relations, continued: the split within the union," "What happens in collective bargaining," and "Transitions in union-management relations."
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