Based on data from new clients who came to a large social agency over a four-month period, Social Workers’ Perceptions of Clients examines the characteristics of clients as they are perceived by caseworkers. It aims to discover and expose underlying dimensions along which the characteristics of female clients, unmarried mothers, and male clients are perceived.

EDGAR F. BORGATTA was social psychologist at the Russell Sage Foundation.

DAVID FANSHEL was professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work.

HENRY J. MEYER was professor of social work and sociology at the University of Michigan.

A volume of Social Science Frontiers, a series of publications reviewing new fields for social development, aimed at foundation executives, administrators of research grant programs, directors of research organizations, and others concerned with making contemporary social science more useful for the function of social reporting.

OTIS DUDLEY DUNCAN was professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin.

This book, published in 1913, describes the results of the first investigation made by the Committee on Women's Work of the Russell Sage Foundation, part of a series of studies of the condition of women's work in important trades in New York City that demonstrate similar conditions throughout the United States. The bookbinding trade, one of the most important trades for women in the city at the time, is examined in detail. These findings were relevant to many other industries because it presented most of the important problems which confronted women wage-earners at the time.

MARY VAN KLEECK was secretary of the Committee on Women's Work at the Russell Sage Foundation.

Written as an appendix to the Fourth Report of the New York State Factory Investigating Commission in 1914, this report examines working wages for women in the millinery trade in an effort to determine what would constitute as fair and adequate rates of pay in such a diverse industry. It argues that such a trade requires the steadying of its seasons, thus lengthening the period of employment in order to make yearly income certain and adequate.

MARY VAN KLEECK was director of the Division of Industrial Studies of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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.

This 1917 report on the conditions of the millinery industry, or the trade of making women's hats, functions as a general study of problems more or less common to all industries characterized by seasonal fluctuations in employment. Two separate but often overlapping inquiries were conducted to secure the data presented in this book, involving the study of wages, education, and the particular conditions surrounding a seasonal occupation.

MARY VAN KLEECK was director of the Division of Industrial Studies 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.

This pamphlet is a 1931 reprint of the introduction to A Bibliography of Social Surveys, serving as a presentation of the survey movement at the time. It includes a short historical retrospect, an attempt at a definition of the survey and its purpose, and a brief analysis of trends in surveys since 1907, the year in which the Pittsburgh Survey was begun.

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

The Health Show Comes to Town is a report of a public health education campaign led by Dr. W.W. Peter in U.S. cities.

EVART G. ROUTZAHN was associate director of the Department of Surveys and Exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation.

In 1910, the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation addressed a circular letter to all charity organization societies in the United States, asking them to give particular attention to their methods of treating widows with children and to offer criticism of a first draft of a survey intended to help these societies make their treatment more effective and thorough. The survey was then filled out by twenty of the societies for every widow with children still under their care at the time. This book presents and examines the results.

MARY E. RICHMOND was director of the Charity Organization Department at the Russell Sage Foundation.

FRED S. HALL was associate director of the Charity Organization Department at the Russell Sage Foundation.