This book was published in 1920 as a summary of the nine reports that made up the Springfield Survey, aimed at presenting the social conditions of an American city in the hopes of progressing community welfare. The general purpose, sequence, and methods behind the survey are summarized.

SHELBY M. HARRISON was director of the Department of Surveys and Exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation.

A volume of the Springfield Survey, a study conducted by the Department of Surveys and Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation for the purpose of improving social and living conditions.

LEE F. HANMER was associate director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Recreation, Russell Sage Foundation

This 1911 pamphlet is an outline to aid those enlisted in social work as a profession, a cursory review of local conditions that look at the new topics that have informed social work in the 20th century, such as industry, child labor, city administration, and community organization.

MARGARET F. BYINGTON was associate director of the charity organization department of the Russell Sage Foundation.

Published in 1909, this report is a result of a New York State Conference of Charities and Correction–appointed study on the essentials and cost of a normal standard of living in the cities and towns of the state, followed by a detailed analysis of the compiled data of workingmen's budgets.

ROBERT COIT CHAPIN was Horace White Professor of economics and finance in Beloit College, Wisconsin.

For three months beginning August 1, 1912, Mr. Carstens was commissioned by the Russell Sage Foundation to study the actual working of public pensions to widows with children in certain western communities.

C.C. CARSTENS was secretary of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

A volume in the Pittsburgh Survey, edited by Paul Underwood Kellogg. The Pittsburgh Survey had been planned by the editors of "Charities and The Commons" before the organization of the Russell Sage Foundation. The Charities Publication Committee accepted and assumed responsibility for the project.

ELIZABETH BEARDSLEY BUTLER was secretary of the Consumers League of New Jersey.

A report sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation and the Consumers' League of Maryland in 1909, this book studies female workers in mercantile stores in Baltimore. While this report deals only with one set of industrial conditions in a single city, it is suggestive of other cities in the country.

ELIZABETH BEARDSLEY BUTLER was secretary of the Consumers League of New Jersey.

Published in 1911 and designed to continue a service rendered by the Bibliography of Settlements until 1905, this handbook presents an outline of the material facts about every settlement in the United States at the time, including non-residential neighborhood centers. In addition to previous research and literature, information is presented from first-hand accounts at these houses from leading representatives on the development and program of settlements.

ROBERT A. WOODS, New York Charities Publication Committee

ALBERT J. KENNEDY, New York Charities Publication Committee

Published jointly by the Committee for Vocational Scholarship of the Henry Street Settlement and the Committee on Women's Work of the Russell Sage Foundation.

HENRIETTE R. WALTER, Investigator Division of Industrial Studies, Russell Sage Foundation

Two addresses, "The Ethics of the Family" and "The Enlargement of the Family Ideal, " delivered before the Section on the Family and the Community at the National Conference of Charities and Correction in Baltimore, May 1915.

JAMES HAYDEN TUFTS was professor and head of the department of philosophy at the University of Chicago.

SAMUEL MCCHORD CROTHERS was minister of the first parish church, Cambridge.