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Gary B. Hansen papers, 1876-2015

Overview of the Collection

Title
Gary B. Hansen papers
Dates
1876-2015 (inclusive)
Quantity
157 boxes, (66.25 linear feet)
Collection Number
UUS_COLL MSS 319
Summary
The materials in this collection have been divided into 15 series. Series I: Cooperatives, Series II: Plant Closings/Worker Dislocation, Series III: Eastern Europe, Series IV: Economic Development, Series V: Manpower Training, Series VI: Labor-Management Relations, Series VII: Latter-day Saints/Utah Topics, Series VIII: Newsletters, Series IX: Office Files, Series X: Helen Foster Snow, Series XI: Clarence J. Hansen WWI Materials, Series XII: Joseph and Frances Alice Chadwick Barker Family Papers, and Series XIII: Military Service. Series I-IX consist largely of articles, correspondence, essays, and reports collected during Hansen's career and travels as a labor scholar. Series X includes articles, correspondence, and typescripts amassed over the course of Hansen's correspondence with China advocate and Utah native Helen Foster Snow. Series XI is composed of materials gathered during WWI by Hansen's relatives, Lt. Clarence J. Hansen and Ruth Hansen Bruerton, and Series XII includes a number of historical papers that represent the lives and work of Hansen's maternal grandparents, Joseph Barker and Frances Alice Chadwick. Series XIII contains documents related to Hansen's service in the United States Army Ordnance Corps from 1957 to 1959. Series XIV consists of materials related to Robert and Nellie Barker Gardner, who is the sister of Lena Barker Hansen, Gary B. Hansen's mother. Finally, Series XV contains a copy of Gary B. Hansen's autobiography, Adventures of a Million Miler.
Repository
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division
Special Collections & Archives
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
Logan, UT
84322-3000
Telephone: 4357978248
Fax: 4357972880
scweb@usu.edu
Access Restrictions

Open to public research.

Languages
English.
Sponsor
Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008
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Biographical Note

Gary Barker Hansen was born in 1935 in Ogden, Utah to Clarence James Hansen and Lena Barker Hansen. When Hansen graduated from high school in 1953, he attended Utah State Agricultural College (now Utah State University), where he graduated with a BS in 1957 and received a commission as a second lieutenant in the United States Army Ordnance Corps. Lt. Hansen entered the U.S. Army in July 1957, serving at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland and Tooele Army Ordnance Depot in Utah, and received an honorable discharge as a first lieutenant in June 1959.

From September 1959 to September 1961, Hansen was a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Great Britain. He served in the British, North British and Scottish-Irish Missions, helping set up the latter two missions and serving as mission secretary in both of them.

After two years in Great Britain, Hansen returned to Logan to attend Utah State University and work for Prof. Leonard J. Arrington. He married Helen Ure in September 1962 and soon received his MS degree in economics in June 1963. During that summer, he co-authored, The Richest Hole on Earth with Prof. Arrington, published as a research monograph by Utah State University. He continued his studies at Cornell University and spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar at the London School of Economics in 1965-1966. He completed his studies at Cornell, and, subsequently, received his PhD from Cornell in 1970. Hansen and his family returned to Logan in September 1967 to accept an appointment as an assistant professor of economics. During his 31 years at USU, he served as a professor of economics, and also as a professor of management and human resources. Hansen became a professor emeritus at USU in November 2000. Throughout his career Hansen published 110 books, chapters, articles, research reports and documents, and made over 150 professional presentations.

While teaching at Utah State University and after his retirement, Hansen worked extensively as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Labor and other state and national committees and task forces, plus the International Labor Organization and other international agencies. He was also a member of a number of professional organizations, including the American Economic Association, Industrial Relations Research Association, American Society for Training and Development, and the International Industrial Relations Association. In the 1980s he worked throughout the United States helping state and local governments implement programs to assist dislocated workers, plus giving testimony before Congress and other national commissions, and spending one year serving on the secretary of labor's Task Force on Worker Dislocation, a group whose report provided the framework for the passage of national legislation that was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan in 1988. During the 1990s, he served three years on the Federal Committee on Apprenticeship and worked in 11 countries in Southeast Asia and Central and Eastern Europe (Thailand, Nepal, China, India, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia, Serbia and Ukraine) helping national and local community leaders learn how to organize and implement economic development and job creation programs.

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Content Description

This 157-box collection contains the personal and professional papers of Gary B. Hansen. Series I-IX consist largely of articles, correspondence, essays, and reports collected during Hansen's career and travels as a labor scholar. Series X includes articles, correspondence, and typescripts amassed over the course of Hansen's correspondence with China advocate and Utah native Helen Foster Snow. Series XI is composed of materials gathered during WWI by Hansen's relatives, Lt. Clarence J. Hansen and Ruth Hansen Bruerton, and Series XII includes a number of historical papers that represent the lives and work of Hansen's maternal grandparents, Joseph Barker and Frances Alice Chadwick. Series XIII contains records and writings from Gary Hansen's service at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland and Tooele Army Ordnance Depot in Utah from 1957 to 1959. Series XIV consists of materials related to Robert and Nellie Barker Gardner, who is the sister of Lena Barker Hansen, Gary B. Hansen's mother. Finally, Series XV contains a copy of Gary B. Hansen's autobiography, Adventures of a Million Miler. More detailed series descriptions can be found under each heading in the inventory.

Special thanks to Dr. Gary B. Hansen for his contribution to the Biographical and Series notes.

Researcher Note:

Those seeking additional information on worker cooperatives in Utah should see the Joseph A. Geddes Papers (Mss Coll 75) and the Leonard J. Arrington Historical Archives.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Utah State University Libraries, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.

Permission to publish material from the Gary B. Hansen papers must be obtained from the Special Collections and Archives manuscript curator and/or the Special Collections and Archives department head.

Preferred Citation

Gary B. Hansen papers, undated. (COLL MSS 319). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Department.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

The materials in this collection have been divided into 15 series:

  • Series I: Cooperatives
  • Series II: Plant Closings/Worker Dislocation
  • Series III: Eastern Europe
  • Series IV: Economic Development
  • Series V: Manpower Training
  • Series VI: Labor-Management Relations
  • Series VII: Latter-day Saints/Utah Topics
  • Series VIII: Newsletters
  • Series IX: Office Files
  • Series X: Helen Foster Snow
  • Series XI: Joseph and Frances Barker Materials and Clarence J. Hansen WWI Materials
  • Series XII: Joseph and Frances Alice Chadwick Barker Family Papers
  • Series XIII: Military Service
  • Series XIV: Robert Gardner and Nellie Barker Gardner family letters
  • Series XV: Gary B. Hansen autobiography

Acquisition Information

The papers were donated to USU Special Collections and Archives by Gary B. Hansen from 2005 to 2006. Additionally, Hansen donated the following writings in 2015: "A Firsthand Account of the New Era in Great Britain" (Series VII, Box 1, Fd 6), "Military Service by the Extended Family Members of Clarence James Hansen and Lena Barker Hansen" (Series XI, Box 5, Fd 14), and Adventures of a Million Miler (Series XV, Box 1, Fds 1-2)

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Finding aid created by Special Collections and Archives.
2008

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