Description
Primarily consists of Paul Taylor's professional and academic research and writings, spanning his career from the 1920s to
his death in 1984, but includes a small amount of personal papers. The bulk of the collection concerns Taylor's research in
the field of agriculture, and includes segments on Mexicans in the U.S., migrant workers, the farm worker strikes of the 1930s
and 1960s, water and land policies in California's Central Valley, and the 160 acre irrigation limitation. With the exception
of correspondence, all series contain research materials, which include any material gathered; drafts of books, articles,
and reports; any correspondence concerning projects, and field notes. Taylor's personal papers include genealogical material
for the Schuster and Taylor families and family correspondence, as well as a collection of materials dedicated to the work
of Dorothea Lange after her death in 1965. Also includes a group of materials which reflect Paul Taylor's contribution to
California Democratic politics from 1932 to 1982, particularly his preparation of analyses on agricultural and water policy
issues.
Background
Paul Schuster Taylor (1895-1984), an Iowa-born economist, graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1917. He served as
a Marine captain with the Second Division, American Expeditionary Forces in France from 1917 to 1919. At the end of his military
service, he resumed his studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a Masters degree in 1920, and
a Ph.D. in 1922. Joining the Department of Economics immediately after graduation, Taylor remained at the University of California,
Berkeley throughout his career.
1895 |
Born June 9th in Sioux City, Iowa |
1917 |
B.A., University of Wisconsin |
1917-1919 |
U.S. Marine Corps, American Expeditionary Forces, France |
1920 |
M.A., University of California, Berkeley |
1922 |
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley |
1922-1962 |
Instructor, and later professor, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley |
1927-1929 |
Chief Investigator, research project, Social Science Research Council, Mexican Labor in the United States |
1930-1931 |
Consultant to National Commission on law observance and enforcement, (Wickersham Committee) studying crime and the foreign-born |
1931-1932 |
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship for study in Jalisco, Mexico |
1933 |
Researcher on self-help cooperatives among unemployed, Social Science Research Council and a Rockefeller Foundation grant
to the University of California, Berkeley
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Consultant, Governor's Fact Finding Committee on the Cotton Strike |
1935 |
Field Director, Division of Rural Rehabilitation California State Emergency Relief Administration (CERA) |
1935-1943 |
President, California Rural Rehabilitation Corporation |
1935-1936 |
Regional Labor Adviser, U.S. Resettlement Administration |
1935-1942 |
Member, State Advisory Council, California Department of Employment |
1936-1940 |
Contributing Editor,
Rural Sociology
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1936-1941 |
Senior Economist, Social Security Board |
1939 |
Member, Governor's Commission on Reemployment (California) |
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Consultant, United States Senate, Civil Liberties Committee |
1940-1944 |
Member, California State Board of Agriculture |
1943-1945 |
Vice-Chairman, Committee on American Principles and Fair Play |
1943-1952 |
Consulting economist, Office of Secretary of the Interior on Central Valley project studies |
1946-1952 |
Consultant, Bureau of Reclamation on Central Valley problems of water distribution and land settlement |
1949 |
Editorial Board Member,
American Quarterly
|
1950-1951 |
Consultant, President's Migratory Labor Committee |
1952 |
Consultant, Export-Import Bank on Artibonite Valley project, Haiti |
1952-1956 |
Chairman, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley |
1955-1968 |
Consultant, International Cooperation Administration (ICA), later called the Agency for International Development (AID), in
Asia, and joint projects with AID and the United Nations, the Ford Foundation, the University of California, and Stanford;
also, field studies on Community Development in India, Pakistan and the Philippines, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Ecuador,
Venezuela, Jamaica, Colombia, Mexico, Egypt, Iran and Panama.
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1956-1962 |
Chairman, Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley |
1962 |
Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley |
1962-63 |
Visiting Professor, Institute of Land Reclamation, University of Alexandria, Egypt |
1965 |
Doctor of Laws, Boalt Law School, University of California, Berkeley |
1970 |
Research Director, California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO |
1971 |
Consultant, California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO |
1972 |
Board of Directors, National Coalition for Land Reform |
1973 |
Legislative Spokesperson, Friends of the Earth |
1976 |
Land-Water Symposium to Honor Paul Schuster Taylor |
1980 |
Conservation Service Award |
1984 |
Died March 13th at his home in Berkeley, Calif. |