Irene Osgood Andrews
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| alt = A photograph of a white woman in an oval frame; she is wearing eyeglasses and a white blouse with a high collar
| caption = Irene Osgood Andrews, from a 1912 publication
| birth_date = January 18, 1879
| birth_place = Big Rapids, Michigan
| death_date = February 1963
| spouse = John Bertram Andrews (m. 1910–1943)
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Irene Osgood Andrews (January 18, 1879 – February 1963) was an American writer on problems of women in industry.U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Early life and education
Irene Osgood was born in Big Rapids, Michigan, the daughter of Lucius L. Osgood and Mary Markley. She was educated at the School of Philanthropy in New York and at the University of Wisconsin, graduating with an A.B. in 1905.
Career
Osgood began her career as agent for the Associated Charities at Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1906 she was appointed special agent for relief work in the American Red Cross in San Francisco, and factory inspector in Wisconsin. She was head resident of the Northwestern University Settlement, Chicago in 1907. She became assistant secretary of the American Association for Labor Legislation in 1908,{{Cite web|title=Andrews, Irene Osgood (1879-1963)|url=https://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/1707|access-date=2021-07-04|website=Jane Addams Digital Edition}} working alongside her husband on investigations, including one project on phosphorus poisoning in factory workers.{{Cite book|last=Hoffman|first=Beatrix Rebecca|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dT15d1HvXe0C&q=Irene+Osgood+Andrews&pg=PA42|title=The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America|date=2001-01-01|publisher=Univ of North Carolina Press|isbn=978-0-8078-4902-6|pages=42|language=en}}
Andrews was a member of the Y.W.C.A. National Industrial Commission to Europe (1918). In the 1920s, she worked on the Legislative Committee of the League of Women Voters LWV in New York. and spoke at LWV events.{{Cite news|date=1924-08-06|title=League of Women Voters to Meet|pages=3|work=Times Union|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/80796896/league-of-women-voters-to-meet/|access-date=2021-07-04|via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news|date=1923-04-11|title=Expectant Mothers and Women in Factories|pages=16|work=The Capital Times|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/80800022/expectant-mothers-and-women-in-factories/|access-date=2021-07-04|via=Newspapers.com}} She was also active in the Citizens Union.{{Cite news|date=1919-01-20|title=Women in Citizens Union|pages=13|work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/80796785/women-in-citizens-union/|access-date=2021-07-04|via=Newspapers.com}}
Andrews often wrote reports and pamphlets, including Review of Labor Legislation of 1909 (1909),{{Cite book|last1=American Association for Labor Legislation|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100218078|title=Review of labor legislation of 1909|last2=Andrews|first2=Irene Osgood|date=1909|publisher=Parsons printery|series=American Association for Labor Legislation. Legislative review (no. 1)|location=Madison}} Tendencies of the Labor Legislation of 1910 (1911),{{Cite journal|last=Andrews|first=Irene Osgood|date=1911|title=Tendencies of the Labor Legislation of 1910|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S000305540000798X/type/journal_article|journal=American Political Science Review|language=en|volume=5|issue=2|pages=224–234|doi=10.2307/1944328|jstor=1944328 |s2cid=144613215 |issn=0003-0554|url-access=subscription}} Working Women in Tanneries, Minimum Wage Legislation (1914),{{Cite book|last1=Andrews|first1=Irene Osgood|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008597418|title=Minimum wage legislation|last2=New York (State).|date=1914|publisher=J. B. Lyon company, printers|series=New York State. Factory Investigating Commission|location=Albany}} Third Report of the Factory Investigating Committee (1914),{{Cite book|last1=Andrews|first1=Irene Osgood|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006570810|title=Third report of the Factory Investigating Commission, 1914.|last2=Whiskeman|first2=James P.|last3=Williamson|first3=Charles C.|last4=Wagner|first4=Robert Ferdinand|last5=Woolston|first5=Howard Brown|last6=Perkins|first6=Frances|series=3rd report of the Factory Investigating Commission, 1914 |date=1914|publisher=J. B. Lyon company, printers|location=Albany}} The Relation of Irregular Employment and the Living Wage for Women (1915), Preliminary Economic Studies of the War (1918),{{Cite book|last=Andrews|first=Irene Osgood|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=64w9QwAACAAJ&q=Irene+Osgood+Andrews|title=Preliminary Economic Studies of the War|date=1918|language=en}} The Economic Effects of the War upon Women and Children in Great Britain (1918, 1921),{{Cite journal|last=Butler|first=C. V.|date=1919|title=Review of Economic Effects of the War upon Women and Children in Great Britain.|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2223413|journal=The Economic Journal|volume=29|issue=115|pages=341–342|doi=10.2307/2223413|jstor=2223413|issn=0013-0133|hdl=2027/coo1.ark:/13960/t2794rk1b|hdl-access=free|url-access=subscription}} The Protection of Maternity an Urgent Need (1920),{{Cite book|last=Andrews|first=Irene Osgood|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NNHZswEACAAJ&q=Irene+Osgood+Andrews|title=The Protection of Maternity an Urgent Need|date=1920|language=en}} Childbirth Protection,{{Cite book|last=Andrews|first=Irene Osgood|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LBYxGwAACAAJ&q=Irene+Osgood+Andrews|title=Childbirth Protection|language=en}} and Industrial Health (1924).{{Cite book|last1=Kober|first1=George M.|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001567330|title=Industrial health|last2=Andrews|first2=Irene Osgood|last3=Hayhurst|first3=Emery Roe|date=1924|publisher=P. Blakiston's Son & Co.|location=Philadelphia}}
Personal life
Osgood married economist and labor organizer John Bertram Andrews on August 8, 1910; they had a son, John Osgood Andrews. She was widowed when John B. Andrews died in 1943;{{Cite news|date=1943-01-05|title=Dr. Andrews (continued)|pages=4|work=The Capital Times|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/80799623/dr-andrews-continued/|access-date=2021-07-04|via=Newspapers.com}} she died in 1963, aged 83 years.{{Cite news|date=1963-02-08|title=Mrs. Andrews, Social Worker, Dies in New York|pages=13|work=Wisconsin State Journal|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/80799853/mrs-andrews-social-worker-dies-in/|access-date=2021-07-04|via=Newspapers.com}}
References
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| editor1-first = John William
| editor1-last = Leonard
| title = Woman's Who's Who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915
| publisher = American Commonwealth Company
| page = 51
| year = 1914
| location = New York
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=GvwUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA51
| postscript= .
}}
}}
External links
- [https://jwa.org/media/letter-to-weil-from-irene-osgood-andrews-of-american-association-for-labor-legislation Letter to Gertrude Weil from Irene Osgood Andrews] of the American Association for Labor Legislation, January 8, 1921, Jewish Women's Archive
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