Margo A Conk

Biographic Data

ID341406
NAMEMargo A Conk
GIVEN NAMESMargo A
FAMILY NAMEConk
SIGNATURECONK M A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS19
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1976
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
H-INDEX2

  • The First Hundred Years of the Bureau of Labor Statistics

    Margo A Conk, Margo Conk et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1987

    [Excerpt] This volume reports on the first century of a government agency whose founders hoped that, by publishing facts about economic conditions, the agency would help end strife between capital and labor. The Bureau's early work included studies of depressions, tariffs, immigrants, and alcoholism and many assignments to investigate and mediate disputes between labor and management. Most of these functions- especially those involving formulatio…

  • Black Milwaukee

    Margo A Conk, Margo Conk et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1987

  • American Medicine and Statistical Thinking, 1800-1860. James H. Cassedy

    Margo A ConkARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology1986

  • The Census, Political Power, and Social Change

    Margo A Conk, Margo ConkARTICLESocial Science History1984

  • Labor Statistics in the American and English Census

    Margo A Conk, M ConkARTICLEJournal of Social History1983Cited by: 4

    Journal Article Labor Statistics in the American and English Census: Making Some Invidious Comparisons Get access Margo Conk Margo Conk University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 16, Issue 4, Summer 1983, Pages 83–102, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/16.4.83 Published: 01 July 1983

  • Historical Research on Social Mobility

    Margo A Conk, Margo Conk et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1982

  • Accuracy, efficiency and bias

    Margo A ConkARTICLEHistorical Methods A Journal of…1981Cited by: 15

    The author uses the experience of the U.S. Bureau of the Census in collecting and reporting occupational information in the decennial census to illustrate some problems of interpretation involved in the editing of quantitative data for errors. Data from U.S. censuses from 1890 to 1940 are used (ANNOTATION)

  • Fortunes and Failures

    Margo A Conk, Peter R DeckerARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1981

  • Roots of the American Working Class

    Margo A Conk, Susan E HirschARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…1980

  • Books reviewed

    Stanley Buder, Dee Garrison et al.ARTICLELabor History1979

    Seven American Utopias: The Architecture of Communitarian Socialism, 1790–1975. By Dolores Hayden. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1976. ix, 401 pp. $16.95. Urban Masses And Moral Order In America, 1820–1920. By Paul Boyer. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978. xi, 387 pp. $18.50. Urban Slavery in the American South, 1820–1860: A Quantitative History. By Claudia Dale Goldin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. xvi, 168 pp. $12.95. Harpers Ferr…

  • A Critique of the Employment Crisis Committee Report

    Margo A ConkARTICLERadical History Review1976

    Research Article| October 01 1976 A CRITIQUE OF THE EMPLOYMENT CRISIS COMMITTEE REPORT Margo A. Conk Margo A. Conk Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1976) 1976 (12): 100–101. https://doi.org/10.1215/1636545-1976-12-100 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Margo A. Conk; A CRITIQUE OF THE EMPLOYMENT CRISIS COMMITTEE REPORT. Radical History Review 1 October 1976; 1…