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Emma A. Winslow

Emma A. Winslow
BornMarch 12, 1887
Rutland County, Vermont
DiedApril 9, 1943
Mount Vernon, New York
Occupation(s)Home economist, researcher, government official

Emma Annie Winslow (March 12, 1887 – April 9, 1943) was an American home economist and researcher. She made statistical studies of welfare topics including nutrition, household budgets, unemployment, and crime, working with various agencies including the United States Department of Agriculture, Wickersham Commission and the United States Children's Bureau.

Early life and education

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Winslow was born in Rutland County, Vermont, the daughter of James Dana Winslow and Kate Elizabeth Willard Winslow.[1] She earned a one-year certificate in Household Economics in 1906 from Simmons College.[2] She earned a bachelor's degree from Teachers' College, Columbia University in 1914, and a master's degree in 1916.[3] She completed doctoral studies at the University of London in 1923, with a dissertation titled Budget Studies and the Measurement of Living Costs and Standards.[4][5]

Career

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Winslow wrote a pamphlet, Your Household Budget in Graphic Form: The New Method of Analyzing and Controlling Household Expenditures (1914), while she was teaching home economics at Columbia University.[6] She gave a series of lectures on home economics in Vermont in 1916.[7] While she was working for the New York Charity Organization Society[8] she wrote Budget Planning and Social Casework (1919)[9] Food Values: How Food Meets Body Needs (1921),[10] and Food Values and Body Needs Shown Graphically (1924),[11] the last two being bulletins of the United States Department of Agriculture.[12]

Winslow also co-wrote Purchasing Power of the Consumer: A Statistical Index (1925) with William E. Berridge and Richard E. Flynn.[13] She worked with the Wickersham Commission[14] when she wrote Crime Increases and Decreases in Massachusetts, 1885-1929: Report of a Study (1930),[15] and contributed to the two-volume Report on the Causes of Crime (1931), published by the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement.[16]

Winslow was director of social statistics at the United States Children's Bureau when she testified at a Senate hearing on unemployment relief in 1933,[17] and wrote Trends in Different Types of Public and Private Relief in Urban Areas (1937), a report of the United States Department of Labor.[18] At the time of her death in 1943, she was director of the division of records and reporting at United Service Organizations (USO).[4]

Personal life

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Winslow died in 1943, aged 56 years, on a train near Mount Vernon, New York.[4] Her grave is in Pittsford, Vermont.[19]

References

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  1. ^ Dana, Elizabeth Ellery (1846-1939); Dana, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1881-1950) (1856). The Dana Family In America. p. 284 – via Internet Archive.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Simmons College (Boston, Mass.) (1903). Catalogue. The College. p. 104.
  3. ^ University, Columbia (1916). Officers and Graduates ... p. 858.
  4. ^ a b c "DR. EMMA A. WINSLOW, USO OFFICIAL, IS DEAD; Director of Division rOf Records, Once With Children's Bureau". The New York Times. 1943-04-11. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-10-14.
  5. ^ Winslow, Emma Annie (1923). Budget studies and the measurement of living costs and standards. University of London.
  6. ^ Stuart, Paul H. "Social Workers and Financial Capability in the Profession's First Half Century" in Julie Birkenmaier, Jami Curley, Margaret Sherraden, eds., Financial Education and Capability: Research, Education, Policy, and Practice (Oxford University Press 2013): 53. ISBN 9780199755950
  7. ^ "To Lecture on Home Economics; Miss Emma Winslow Will Speak in High School Auditorium Tomorrow". The Courier-News. 1916-11-14. p. 1. Retrieved 2021-10-14 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ Charity Organization Society of the City of New York. Committee on Home Economics; report written by Emma A. Winslow. "My money won't reach ..." The experience of 377 self-supporting families in New York City in endeavoring to make their incomes provide the essentials for healthful living. Committee on Home Economics, Charity Organization Society.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ Winslow, Emma A. (Emma Annie) (1919). Budget planning in social case work. University of California Libraries. New York.
  10. ^ Winslow, Emma A. (Emma Annie) (1921). Food values: how foods meet body needs. The Library of Congress. Washington, [Govt. print. off.]
  11. ^ Winslow, Emma Annie (1924). Food Values and Body Needs Shown Graphically. United States Department of Agriculture.
  12. ^ "How Various Foods Meet Need of Body; Recent Bulletin of Much Interest to Housekeepers". The Marion County News. 1923-08-16. p. 4. Retrieved 2021-10-14 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ Berridge, William Arthur; Flinn, Richard A.; Winslow, Emma A. (1925). Purchasing power of the consumer; a statistical index. Chicago & New York: Shaw.
  14. ^ "Increase in Crime Puzzles the Wickersham Commission". The Kansas City Times. 1931-08-17. p. 5. Retrieved 2021-10-14 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ Winslow, Emma Annie (1930). Crime Increases and Decreases in Massachusetts, 1885-1929: Report of a Study. United States Wickersham Commission.
  16. ^ United States; McKay, Henry D.; Shaw, Clifford R.; Reid, Ira De Augustine; Winslow, Emma A.; Van Kleeck, Mary; Ploscowe, Morris; Anderson, Henry Watkins (1931). Report on the causes of crime. Washington: U. S. Govt. Print. Off.
  17. ^ United States Congress Senate Committee on Manufactures (1933). Federal Aid for Unemployment Relief: Hearings, Seventy-second Congress, Second Session. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 46.
  18. ^ Winslow, Emma A.; United States Children's Bureau (1937). Trends in different types of public and private relief in urban areas, 1929-35. Boston Public Library. Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off.
  19. ^ "Dr. Emma A. Winslow". Rutland Daily Herald. 1943-04-15. p. 9. Retrieved 2021-10-14 – via Newspapers.com.