Based on Jacob H. Schiff's 1908 argument for the establishment of an unofficial employment bureau for the City of New York for the benefit of the unemployed, this 1909 report, funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, is an examination of the need for such a bureau and an inquiry into the reasons for the discontinuance of other similar labor bureaus that attempted to deal with the same problem.

EDWARD T. DEVINE was Schiff Professor of Social Economy at Columbia University and general secretary of the Charity Organization Society of the City of New York.

"A report of the agencies and institutions in California devoted to the care of dependent, delinquent, children. One of a series prepared to present and illustrate the types of institutions and services provided to children across the United States."

WILLIAM H. SLINGERLAND was a special agent in the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

HASTINGS H. HART was director of hte Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

This book was published in 1963 as an account of the successes and difficulties encountered in the experimental introduction of a social science research service into an ongoing health and welfare agency, specifically the recounting of the development of the Social Research Service of the State Charities Aid Association, a voluntary organization with the goal of social reform.

ROLAND L. WARREN was professor of sociology at Alfred University.

Published in 1963, this book offers a critique on the processes by which professional sociologists were being educated in the graduate schools of the United States at the time. It aims to promote higher and more uniform standards of basic scientific training for sociologists. It is not a balanced account of the development of sociology but an assessment of the performance of graduate schools and any discrepancies in training.

ELBRIDGE SIBLEY, Social Science Research Council

This book, published in 1955, is a successor to Joanna C. Colcord's Your Community: Its Provision for Health, Education, Safety, and Welfare, published by the Russell Sage Foundation in 1939. It is designed as a broadly conceived working manual of community study aimed at not just social workers, like its predecessor, but a more varied group of citizens. It details procedures for conducting the survey, both in its organizational and methodological aspects.

ROLAND L. WARREN was professor of sociology at Alfred University.

A chapter of The Modern High School, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, this paper analyzes the expanding role of high schools as education centers, particularly as growing social centers for the community around them. It details how a school principal can adapt to this growing role and define the public education of the community.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

Published in 1912, this paper addresses what must be done to establish a social center in an existing school, particularly by developing community interest in such an endeavor and by appointing a proper director or leader with a set of demonstrated qualifications. Details are provided in how to organize the agency, as well as a number of legal obstacles that have to be overcome.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

This pamphlet, published in 1910, aims to serve as a guide for a better and more beneficent organization of social service work in the United States, combating the neglect of bad social conditions and aimless charitable activity. It provides a detailed analysis of social conditions in smaller cities, with a wealth of practical advice and illustration.

FRANCIS H. McLEAN was field secretary of the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation.

Planned to supplement a more extensive 1941 study of salaries of child welfare workers, this 1944 report notes what was then a trend of salaries of member agencies of the Child Welfare League of America moving generally and substantially upward. It sets out to present and interpret these results.

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

This 1943 study examines the salaries of the paid professional workers at the Young Women's Christian Associations throughout the United States in the month of October 1942. Its purpose is to examine some of the chief characteristics of this group of social work personnel, particularly to understand how these factors influence the salaries these workers receive.

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