This booklet reprints an address delivered before the National Conference of Charities and Correction in Indianapolis, Indiana, on May 15, 1916. It includes a list of publications on cooperative credit published by the Russell Sage Foundation. The author argues that it cooperative credit associations are best suited to advancing money to the workingman. He notes that in the United States this type of association is known as a credit union and is designed to encourage thrift, promote industry, and train its members in business methods and self-government.

ARTHUR H. HAM was director of the remedial loans division of the Russell Sage Foundation.

This booklet is the Yiddish translation of “The Cooperative People’s Bank.”

ALPHONSE DESJARDINS was president and manager of La Caisse Populaire de Levis and general director of L’Action Populaire Economique.

This booklet, published by the Division of Remedial Loans of the Russell Sage Foundation, provides the draft of a proposed law regulating pawnbrokers.

This booklet discusses the Provident Loan Society of New York, which was created to make emergency loans in response to the financial panic of 1893–1894. It presents the society’s act of incorporation, its constitution, and a list of remedial loan societies operating in 1932.

ROLF NUGENT worked in the Department of Remedial Loans at the Russell Sage Foundation.

This booklet discusses the English Hire-Purchase Act of 1938 which dealt with restrictions on repossession, provisions for termination of agreements, requirements regarding the form and content of legal instruments, and the contracts to which the act was applicable. The booklet covers each of these topics and includes two appendixes: a chronology of the Hire-Purchase Bill and the text of the Hire-Purchase Act.

JOHN E. HAMM was assistant director of the Department of Consumer Credit Studies at the Russell Sage Foundation.

This booklet reprints an article published in The Family of July 1930. It notes that during the summer of 1929, at the request of the Family Welfare Association of America, the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation studied the salaries paid by the member agencies of the association. The study included information on the number of weeks of vacation allowed with pay to each worker on the staff. The booklet reports the results of the study.

RALPH G. HURLIN was director of the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation.

This booklet presents the results of a study of salaries and certain related work conditions in the field of medical social work made by the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation in 1937. The study's main purpose was to estimate the current salary levels for various positions in this type of social work and to indicate the variations in these levels. The study was a sequel to one made in 1933, which recorded a general decline in medical social work salaries from 1930 to 1933, and it was planned to show how much improvement, if any, had been realized by these workers during four years of recovery.

RALPH G. HURLIN was director of the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation.

This booklet summarizes statistics of casework operations in 1937 reported monthly to the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation by a selected group of private family welfare agencies. It includes information on the quality of the data, month-to-month changes, active cases per month, and amount of relief per case, among other topics.

RALPH G. HURLIN was director of the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation.

This booklet continues a series of similar annual summaries of operating statistics of private family welfare agencies issued since 1936. It is based on data reported monthly and made available to the reporting agencies and others in a monthly table of comparative statistics.

RALPH G. HURLIN was director of the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation.

During 1944 the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation continued the collection of statistics of the operations of family casework organizations with the same sixty agencies that participated in the two preceding years. This booklet contains detailed comparative statistics of the work of those agencies for the calendar year 1944, derived from their reported monthly statistics. It also records service trends, shown by these and corresponding earlier data, for the nine-year period 1936 to 1944.

RALPH G. HURLIN was director of the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation.