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A Credit Union Primer

Authors
Arthur H. Ham
Leonard G. Robinson
Ebook
Publication Date
156 pages

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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?

An Introductory Description
Author
Mary E. Richmond
Ebook
Publication Date
268 pages

About This Book

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

Editor
C. Spencer Richardson
Ebook
Publication Date
15 pages

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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

To accompany round table plan for trustees of institutions for dependent children
Author
C. Spencer Richardson
Ebook
Publication Date
23 pages

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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

To accompany round table plan for trustees of institutions for dependent children
Author
C. Spencer Richardson
Ebook
Publication Date
26 pages

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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

A Concrete Community study of Child-caring Methods
Author
Florence L. Lattimore
Ebook
Publication Date
123 pages

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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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The Campaign Against the Loan Shark

Author
Arthur H. Ham
Ebook
Publication Date
7 pages

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A pamphlet published by the Russell Sage Division of Remedial Loans in 1912.

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Measurements as Applied to School Hygiene

Author
Luther H. Gulick
Ebook
Publication Date
11 pages

About This Book

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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The Steel Workers

Author
John A. Fitch
Ebook
Publication Date
380 pages

About This Book

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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The Longshoremen

Author
Charles B. Barnes
Ebook
Publication Date
287 pages

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Published in 1915, this report provides an account of the working conditions and wages of longshoremen in the United States in the early twentieth century. It highlights the problems that come with intermittent employment and casual labor.

CHARLES B. BARNES was fellow at the Bureau of Social Research, New York School of Philanthropy, and director of New York State Public Employment Bureau.

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