Labor issues

Labor issues have been a part of the history of the College of William and Mary since its founding. Information about the relationship between the College and slavery and Women at William & Mary (particularly women faculty) is also available. The relationship between the College and its labor force remains complex and includes a host of issues related to gender, race, faculty housing, a living wage, retirement and other benefits, as well as other issues.

Salary information for William and Mary faculty and staff is available as part of the Human Resources Records in the Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library. (Note: The salary lists portion of the collection are requested annually by the University Archivist from Human Resources and are not part of a transfer of records by the office.) In recent years, the student newspaper the Virginia Informer has published lists of the salaries of instructional and adjunct faculty.[1][2] The website Collegiate Times also began publishing salaries of instructional and professional faculty as well as administrators online in 2009 in a searchable database.

Material in the Special Collections Research Center

• A guide for research related to the College of William and Mary is maintained by Swem Library librarians and archivists.
• Integration at Work: The First Labor History of The College of William and Mary
• Human Resources Records, 1946-ongoing, Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library, William & Mary.
• Committee on Employment Opportunities, Committees Collection, 1932-ongoing, Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library, William & Mary. The 2001 Report to the President from this folder is available in the W&M Digital Archive. Working papers are also available in this folder.
• Living Wage Campaign Records, 1991-2005, Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library, William & Mary.
• Office of the President Records, Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library, William & Mary.
• Vice President for Administration and Finance Records, 1928-ongoing, Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library, William & Mary.
• Office of the Vice President for Administration Records, 1988-2006, Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library, William & Mary.
• Vice President for Business Affairs Records, 1938-2000, Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library, William & Mary.
• Office of Finance Records, 1978-2001, Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library, William & Mary.
• Office of Management and Budget Records, 1972-1998, Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library, William & Mary.
• Office of the Provost Records, 1972-ongoing, Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library, William & Mary.
• University Archives Subject File Collection, 1693-ongoing, Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library, William & Mary.
• "W&M Custodians: Ignored," William and Mary Perspective Vol. 1, Issue 2, front page story. Available in Swem Library's Special Collections Research Center, call number: LH1 .W54 P47 (Archives serials).
• Flat Hat (check card catalog index in the Special Collections Research Center lobby for further citations):
  • "Janitors and Maids Form Traditional Part of College," Flat Hat, 6 March 1946, 8.
• Laura Sido, Working conditions of housekeepers at the College of William and Mary : "You can't eat tradition", Honors Thesis, 2001.
• A guide to conducting research related to the College of William and Mary is also available.

Need help?

To search for further material, visit the Special Collections Research Center's Search Tool List for an overview of the Special Collections Database, W&M Digital Archive, Flat Hat-William & Mary News-Alumni Gazette index, card catalogs, and other tools available to help you find material of interest in William & Mary Libraries Special Collections Research Center.

Questions? Contact the Special Collections Research Center at spcoll@wm.edu or 757-221-3090, or visit the Special Collections Research Center in the Earl Gregg Swem Library at William & Mary.

A Note About The Contents Of This Wiki

The information available in this wiki is the best available from known documents and sources at the time it was written. Unfortunately, many of the early original records of William & Mary were destroyed by fires, military occupation, and the normal effects of time. Information in this wiki is not complete as new information continues to be uncovered in Swem Library's Special Collections Research Center and elsewhere. Researchers are strongly encouraged to use the Special Collections search tools for their research as the information contained in this wiki is by no means comprehensive.