Part of the Industrial Relations Series, a series by the Department of Industrial Studies of the Russell Sage Foundation investigating early twentieth-century experiments in the organization of relations between employers and employees in industrial enterprises in the United States. A case study of the administration of agreements between miners’ and operators’ organizations in the bituminous coal mines of Illinois.

Louis Bloch was statistician of the Department of Industrial Relations of California and a staff member of the Russell Sage Foundation.

This book, published in 1944, presents recommendations for the development of adequate standards for child welfare institutions. It examines the history of such institutions, from asylums and orphanages. Topics include foster family care, community resources for meeting the needs of children, qualifications and earnings for staff, physical needs and education and training, costs of institutional care, and structural recommendations for buildings, including sample plans.

Howard W. Hopkirk was executive director of the Child Welfare League of America.

From the foreword by Fedele F. Fauri, then dean of the University of Michigan School of Social Work: “In the field of social welfare it is often urged that in-service training and reduced workloads are available and effective means of improving service. Such proposals are in keeping with other efforts to raise standards in the public assistance programs. Little evidence from research is available, however, to test the arguments on the subject. This monograph contributes a careful evaluation of experiments with these measures. The study was conducted in the Michigan State Department of Social Welfare and concerned cases carried in the Aid to Dependent Children Program.”

Edwin J. Thomas was associate professor of social work and of psychology at the University of Michigan. Donna L. McLeod was research associate at the University of Michigan. Pauline Bushey was assistant professor of social work at the University of Michigan. Lydia F. Hylton was research assistant at the University of Michigan. In collaboration with Pauline Bushey and Lydio F. Hylton.

This book examines the adoption process in the United States, asking whether the process provides sufficient protection for children. It deals specifically with independent adoptions—that is, outside of social agencies, through a process in which would-be adoptive parents secure the children either directly from their natural parents or relatives, or through intermediaries such as physicians or lawyers who know of the natural parents’ interest in giving up their children. It details a follow-up investigation with families made during 1956 and 1957 around the time the adopted children were about ten years old.

A study of unemployment in New Haven published in 1932. Contrasts by sex, marital status, age, industry, and occupation are analyzed, among others.

Margaret H. Hogg, Department of Statistics, Russell Sage Foundation

Prepared by the Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA), a Washington advocacy group serving the major professional societies in the social and behavioral sciences.

The federal government is a major supporter of research in the social and behavioral sciences, but until now, no single, multidisciplinary directory has been available to guide researchers through the complexities of government funding in these fields.

COSSA’s inclusive Guide to Federal Funding describes over 300 federal programs in impressive detail, including funding priorities, application guidelines, and examples of funded research. Introductory essays describe the organization of social science funding and offer inside views of federal funding practices and contract research.

For anyone who needs to know the ins and outs of government funding in the social sciences and related fields, COSSA’s Guide will be an essential new research.

Contributors: David Jenness, William Morrill, Martin Duby, Felice J. Levine, Janet M. Cuca, Barbara A. Bailar, Steven R. Schlesinger, Janet L. Norwood, and Emerson J. Elliott

With a foreword by Mary Van Kleeck. Part of the Industrial Relations Series, a series by the Department of Industrial Studies of the Russell Sage Foundation investigating early twentieth-century experiments in the organization of relations between employers and employees in industrial enterprises in the United States. This volume examined William Filene’s Sons Company, a Boston department store, particularly the development of its human relations as an integral part of its business aims and its methods of management.

Mary La Dame, Department of Industrial Studies, Russell Sage Foundation

With a foreword by Mary Van Kleeck. Part of the Industrial Relations Series, a series by the Department of Industrial Studies of the Russell Sage Foundation investigating early twentieth-century experiments in the organization of relations between employers and employees in industrial enterprises in the United States. How a company, which operated more than twenty bituminous coal mines, a large steel works, and a railroad in Colorado, undertook to organize its relations with its workers by instituting a plan of “employes’ representation” is the subject of two studies, one on coal mines and one on steel works.

Ben M. Selekman, Department of Industrial Studies, Russell Sage Foundation.