Amy Hewes
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- Economist
- college professor
Amy Hewes | |
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 Amy Hewes, from the 1910 Mount Holyoke College yearbook | |
| Born | September 8, 1877 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Died | March 25, 1970 (aged 92) Ossining, New York, U.S. |
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| Known for | taught at Mount Holyoke College from 1905 to 1943 |
Amy Hewes (September 8, 1877 – March 25, 1970) was an American economist, "a pioneer in introducing the minimum wage to the United States",[1] who taught at Mount Holyoke College from 1905 to 1943.
Amy Hewes was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of Edwin Hewes and Martha G. Hewes.[2] Her birth was registered with the Baltimore Monthly Meeting of Friends. She earned a bachelor's degree at Goucher College in 1897. She earned a master's degree at the University of Berlin in 1900, and completed doctoral studies in sociology at the University of Chicago in 1903,[3][4] with a dissertation titled "The Part of Invention in the Social Process."[5] Along with the Wisconsin school, the Chicago School of sociology is very influential in the academic history of disciplinary sociology and between 1892 and 1920 Hewes was the only woman student awarded a fellowship in the sociology department[6] However, Albion W. Small, department chair in sociology at Chicago, would recommend her not for a position in sociology or cognate disciplines but as a language instructor of German: "political science--civics, constitutional and diplomatic history, elementary economics and sociology--or something within hailing distance of these I should not hesitate--but German is a sight too wide of the mark", she wrote to Small, clarifying her choice to decline this job in a letter.[7]
