The business format of franchising has grown substantially, both in the range of industries that use the model and in the percentage of the workforce employed. The fast food industry uses the franchise model extensively, with the top fast food chains employing roughly 2.3 million workers. They have the lowest average annual earnings of any occupation and have difficulty making a living and supporting a family, and are often dependent on some form of public assistance.
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An elementary treatise on cooperative banking, containing questions and answers concerning methods of organization and operation, necessary books and forms, suggested by-laws and the Credit Union Law of New York.
ARTHUR H. HAM was director of the remedial loans division of the Russell Sage Foundation
LEONARD G. ROBINSON was manager of the Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society.
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What is Social Case Work?
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This introduction to social case work was published in 1922 as part of the Russell Sage Foundation's Social Work Series. The different forms of social work and their interrelations in the school, workshop, hospital, and court are analyzed.
MARY E. RICHMOND was director of the Charity Organization Department at the Russell Sage Foundation.
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Round Table Plan for Trustees of Institutions for Dependent Children
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In 1916, the Foundation's Department of Child-Helping organized round table sessions to assist trustees of institutions caring for dependent children in their administrative duties. This document outlines the agendas of the meetings, which also accompanied the publication of eight short monographs of study findings.
C. SPENCER RICHARDSON was associate director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.
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Physical Care of Dependent Children in Institutions
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One of a series of monographs prepared by the Foundation's Department of Child-Helping to accompany round table meetings of trustees of institutions caring for children. Physical Care of Dependent Children in Institutions discusses how the vital health needs of children were met at institutions in New York.
C. SPENCER RICHARDSON was associate director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.
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Education of Dependent Children in Institutions
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One of a series of monographs prepared by the Foundation's Department of Child-Helping to accompany round table meetings of trustees of institutions caring for children. The Education of Dependent Children in Institutions discusses the academic and vocational aspects of the subject, social, moral and religious considerations are put forth in another monograph of the series.
C. SPENCER RICHARDSON was associate director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.
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Pittsburgh as a Foster Mother
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Originally published in The Pittsburgh District, a volume of the 1914 Pittsburgh Survey, this report is an in-depth study of children's institutions in Pittsburgh at the time. Housing accommodation standards, children's schedules, and education curriculum are discussed at length. Based on the social needs of children during the rise of industry in the city, this study presents a program for the conservation and rehabilitation of the homes of children, the requirement for thoughtfully selected foster homes, the adoption of standards of care in foster homes, and the enforcement of these standards.
FLROENCE L. LATTIMORE was associate director of Department of Child Hygiene of the Russell Sage Foundation.
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A pamphlet published by the Russell Sage Division of Remedial Loans in 1912.
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This pamphlet argues for definite measurements of results in the study of school hygiene and other areas in order to improve the school system. It was published by the Department of Child Hygiene of the Russell Sage Foundation in 1911.
LUTHER H. GULICK was director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.
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A look at the steel industry in Pittsburgh, this book is a volume of the Pittsburgh Survey, published in 1911. The Steel Workers deals with the work-relationships of the steel men, documenting their harsh working conditions and the union movement.
JOHN A. FITCH was a fellow at the University of Wisconsin and an expert at the New York State Department of Labor.
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