Margaret Shaughnessy Gordon. Past president of the Consumers Cooperative of Berkeley, research economist, and community leader.
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Title: Margaret Shaughnessy Gordon. Past president of the Consumers Cooperative of Berkeley, research economist, and community leader.
Dates: 1984
Collection Number: OH--Gordon
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Extent: 1 v. (73 l. : ill. ; 29 cm.)
Repository:
Berkeley Historical Society
Berkeley, California 94704
Abstract: Oral history interview documenting Margaret Gordon's professional accomplishments, which includes some information concerning
her husband, Aaron, and their sons.
Language of Material: English
The collection is open for research.
Copyright is held by the Berkeley Historical Society. Requests for permission to publish should be addressed to the Oral History
Committee of the society.
Margaret Shaughnessy Gordon. Past president of the Consumers Cooperative of Berkeley, research economist, and community leader..
Berkeley Historical Society
Biography/Administrative History
Interview conducted by Therese Pipe, 1983; forms part of the Consumers Cooperative of Berkeley Oral History Collection
Scope and Content of Collection
Family background; Aaron Gordon in the Dept. of Economics and Margaret Gordon joins the Institute of Industrial Relations
at the University of California, Berkeley; both become active in the Berkeley coop; Margaret works with the League of Women
Voters then enters politics and serves on the Berkeley City Council in the 1960s dealing with issues such as youth unemployment,
Slate politics, taxation, and school board recall; Margaret appointed Associate Director of the Carnegie Commission on Higher
Education.