Kim Phillips-Fein Research Files
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Kim Phillips-Fein is a professor at New York University and author of the books, Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal (2009) and Fear City (2017). She also wrote essays that have appeared in The Nation, The Atlantic, the Journal of American History, and The Baffler, among other publications. She is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians (2017 – 2020). The papers in this collection are research materials used by Phillips-Fein to write her book, Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal. They include copies of scholarly articles, newspaper clippings, business newsletters, and union pamphlets. Most significant are handwritten research notes and early drafts of Invisible Hands.
Biographical Note
Kim Phillips-Fein teaches American history at New York University, where she is an associate professor in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She is the author of the books Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal (2009) and Fear City (2017), and acts as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians (2017 - 2020). She also wrote essays that have appeared in The Nation, The Atlantic, the Journal of American History, and The Baffler, among other publications.
Arrangement
This collection has not been arranged by an archivist. The materials are arranged in the order in which they were recieved from the donor.
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of research materials collected and used by Kim Phillips-Fein in the course of researching and writing her book Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal. Materials include photocopies of scholarly articles, newspaper clippings, business newsletters, and union pamphlets held in archival collections at other archival and special collections repositories documenting various aspects of conservatism, labor strikes, and labor unions in the early and mid-20th century. Most significant are handwritten research notes and early drafts of Invisible Hands.
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Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by Kim Phillips-Fein, the creator of this collection, were relinquished and transferred to the public domain in 2017 by the donor. These materials are governed by a Creative Commons CC0 license, which permits publication and reproduction of materials accompanied by full attribution. See, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Kim Phillips-Fein Research Files; TAM 730; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Kim Phillips-Fein in 2017. The accession number associated with this gift is 2017.057.
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At the time of accessioning, legal sized material were placed into acid-free legal folders. All materials were rehoused in new boxes. The collection was kept in the original arrangement it arrived in and described on the collection level.
