This booklet reprints an article from the Proceedings of the Sixtieth Annual Session of the National Conference of Social Work in Detroit in June 1933. The article notes that in 1930, for the first time, the federal census of occupations included in its classification a separate category for social workers. One purpose of the article was to comment on the quality of the data. A second purpose was to present data derived from this first countrywide enumeration concerning the relative number of social workers in different parts of the country in comparison with other professional or near-professional groups.

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

This booklet is reprinted from The Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science of July 1912. It contains the follow papers: “The Spread of the Survey Idea,” by Paul U. Kellogg; “A Social Survey of a Typical American City,” by Shelby M. Harrison; and “A Sanitary and Health Survey,” by George Thomas Palmer.

PAUL U. KELLOGG was the director of the Pittsburgh Survey of 1907–1909.

SHELBY M. HARRISON was the director of the Syracuse Social Survey.

GEORGE THOMAS PALMER was a physician in Springfield, Illinois.

This booklet contains a report of living conditions in Scranton, Pennsylvania, conducted by the Department of Surveys and Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation and published by the Century Club of Scranton. It covers the following topics: community assets, education, public health and sanitation, civic improvement, betterment agencies, recreation, taxation and public finance, work conditions and relations, and delinquency.

This booklet provides a list of works about social surveys.

ZENAS L. POTTER worked in the Department of Surveys and Exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation.

This booklet provides a list of works about social surveys.

ZENAS L. POTTER worked in the Department of Surveys and Exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation.

The Charity Organization Bulletins were printed for the confidential use of charity organization societies by the Charity Department of the Russell Sage Foundation. The bulletins for December 1913 through November 1914 cover topics such as the culture of family life, fundraising, large families with small wages, and vacations and office hours at charity organizations.

This booklet provides a general review of the work of the Public Schools Athletic League and discusses the Athletic Badge Test, a test given to boys requiring them to run a certain distance,  jump a certain distance, and pull themselves up to a bar a certain number of times.

This illustrated booklet focuses on the causes of poverty and ways to alleviate it. It asks such questions as which is better: helping the poor in their poverty or helping the poor out of their poverty and is it money alone that the poor need?

This booklet presents evidence indicating that social work salaries are too low for the development of social work as a profession. It includes diagrams presenting results of a study conducted by the Russell Sage Foundation that aimed to trace the course of salaries in social work over the period of rising prices and wages during and just after World War I and through the subsequent period until 1926.

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

This article from The North American Review, though not published by the Russell Sage Foundation, was written by RSF’s founder, Margaret Olivia Sage, and thus may be of interest to scholars. The author argues that privileged women have a duty to help others and that recent changes in women’s education have expanded their minds, thus allowing them to make greater contributions to society.

MARGARET OLIVIA SAGE founded the Russell Sage Foundation in 1907.