Description
The Francis Lomas Feldman papers consist of notes, correspondence, publications, reports and miscellaneous materials documenting
Feldman's teaching and research. Frances Lomas Feldman (1912-2008), was a faculty member of the School of Social Work at
the University of Southern California from 1954 until 1982. Feldman's teaching areas were social welfare history, policy,
and administration. Feldman's research and writing center on the psychological, social, and economic meanings of money and
work in American families.
Background
Papers of Frances Lomas Feldman (1912-2008), faculty member of the School of Social Work at the University of Southern California
since 1954. Feldman's teaching areas were social welfare history, policy, and administration. Feldman's research and writing
center on the psychological, social, and economic meanings of money and work in American families. Her writings on the meanings
of money still constitute the seminal work in this field and have received continued national and international attention.
Her three research projects on work experience of persons with cancer health histories represent the first funding of psychosocial
research by the American Cancer Society and remain the fundamental data on this topic of growing contemporary concern. Its
findings and recommendations led several states to modify fair employment legislation. Feldman was instrumental in establishing
the first industrial social work curriculum in the west, as well as a University-funded staff faculty counseling center, which
has become a model for the creation of employee counseling programs in some government and industry work places in California.
With George Nickel, she established the first credit counseling services; 280 now exist throughout the nation under the auspices
of the National Consumer Credit Association. With Norris Class, Feldman helped to create the still operating Delinquency Control
Institute at USC, a training facility for corrections and related personnel. It draws students for its training from around
the United States and the world for its programs each year. Private corporations also call upon her to examine the impact
of downsizing policies and actions on employees and their families. Her work on the Alaska Rural Areas Social Services Demonstration
not only was ranked by the University of Florida as one of the ten most successful demonstration projects ever funded by HEW,
but also led to an invitation from the governments of Mali and Morocco for consultation about dealing with similar problems
in those countries.
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6 Linear Feet
7 boxes
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