Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Melville Dalton
- Abstract:
- Melville Dalton (1907-1978) was a sociologist and UCLA professor of sociology who focused his career on studying staff relationships in industry. This collection contains manuscripts of Dalton's professional writings and correspondence largely relating to publications, including the publication of Men Who Manage.
- Extent:
- 0.8 linear feet (2 document boxes)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Melville Dalton Papers (Collection 2268). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection contains manuscripts of Dalton's professional writings and correspondence relating largely to his publications, including the publication of Men Who Manage. Included in this collection is an unpublished book manuscript titled Formal and Informal Organization in Industry. Materials also relate to Dalton's education at the University of Chicago and his time teaching at UCLA.
- Biographical / historical:
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Melville Dalton was born in 1907 and spent his early years in Indiana, working as a hotel bellhop to support himself after being orphaned. Despite his inability to receive a high school or undergraduate education, Dalton took the Master's qualifying exam for sociology for the University of Chicago in 1944 and passed. He was admitted to the program and received his master's degree in 1946 and went on to receive his PhD in Sociology from the same university in 1949. Dalton spent several years teaching at Washington University and University of Kansas before accepting a faculty position in the department of sociology at UCLA in 1953. Dalton published his major work, Men Who Manage, in 1959 which still serves as a classic study of business management relations in the field of sociology. Following the book, Dalton continued to publish articles concerning staff relationships while also teaching at UCLA. Dalton retired from UCLA in 1971. Melville Dalton died on November 17, 1978 in Santa Monica, California.
- Acquisition information:
- Donated by Dorothea Dalton in 2012.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Mary Priest in the Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT), with assistance from Jillian Cuellar, 2015. Processing of this collection was generously supported by the Constantine and Perina Panunzio Endowment for University Archives.
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- Arrangement:
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Items are arranged chronologically within subject.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright to portions of this collection has been assigned to the UCLA Library Special Collections. The library can grant permission to publish for materials to which it holds the copyright. All requests for permission to publish must be submitted in writing to Library Special Collections. Credit shall be given as follows: The Regents of the University of California on behalf of the UCLA Library Special Collections.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Melville Dalton Papers (Collection 2268). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988