Meyer Bloomfield

Meyer Bloomfield was the leader of the vocational guidance movement, a movement started by Frank Parsons's book Choosing a Vocation (1909). He worked for three decades to establish organizations, train practitioners, and publish materials on finding vocations, and helped shape related specialties including occupational placement, employee selection, and worker supervision. Bloomfield went to the City College of New York in 1899, and later to Harvard in 1901 with a social work degree. While at Harvard, he was the first guide for the Jacob Hecht Club for boys, a project of the Hebrew Industrial School. Head of the Civic Service House in Boston when it was first founded. He then studied law at Boston University and helped found several unions, such as the Women's Trade Union League, which was organized by Mary O'Sullivan at the Civic Service House. Bloomfield also founded the Vocational Guidance Bureau within the Civic Service House with Parsons.

Bloomfield married Sylvia Palmer in 1902. They had three children together. Bloomfield died in 1938.

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