This 1930 report of a statistical study of 10,000 small loans is part of the Small Loans Series, a general survey of small loans prepared for the Russell Sage Foundation by the Department of Remedial Loans. Topics include the development of the small loan business and the social, economic, and living conditions of borrowers.

Louis N. Robinson was professor of economics at Swarthmore College.

A survey of the role of company-sponsored foundations and the philanthropic contributions of American corporations. History and growth, financial operations, goals and objectives, and the causes company foundations support are discussed.

This survey of small loan legislation is part of a general survey of small loans prepared for the Russell Sage Foundation under the direction of Dr. Louis N. Robinson. It is issued as one of the Small Loan Series of the Department of Remedial Loans. Chapter VIII of this volume on the Constitutionality of Small Loan Legislation, by Frank R. Hubachek, was printed in 1931 as a pamphlet under the same title.

David J. Gallert, New York Bar; Walter S. Hilborn, New York Bar, Geoffrey may, Inner Temple, London

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. It examines the plan for employee representation of a mill in Wappingers Falls, New York, and the relationship between workers and management.

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

The final volume of the Small Loan Series of the Russell Sage Foundation, this 1935 book is a summary of previous publications of the series and the foundation of an independent study related to regulation of small loans. The historical background of lending, the beginning of the small loan business, character and technique of unregulated lending, small loan legislation, characteristics of borrows, and the question of the maximum rate of charge are discussed.

Louis N. Robinson was professor of economics at Swarthmore College. Rolf Nugent was director of the Department of Remedial Loans at the Russell Sage Foundation.

From the preface: “This study was taken up in response to a need expressed by practical workers in public employment offices and in industry. The burden of what they had to say was that public employment office work had grown rapidly in recent years, that new and important questions of policy had arisen, and that many of these required more time to be thought through and worked out than persons in the midst of the exacting daily duties of the service could devote to them.” Topics include the nature of employment bureau work, the need for better organization methods, the case for establishing a public employment service, and the methods of organizing and performing the placement and administrative functions of a local office. In collaboration with Bradley Buell, Leslie E. Woodcock, Mary La Dame, and Frederick A. King.

Shelby M. Harrison was director of the Department of Surveys and Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation.

This monograph is one of a proposed series dealing with the status of certain established or emerging professions in the United States. It looks at the growing role of the engineer to occupy positions of a managerial nature, not only in the field of engineering but in industry, business, public health, banking, and the administration of public affairs. Training, national associations, salaries, and trends are also discussed.

ESTHER LUCILE BROWN was director of the Department of Studies in the Professions at the Russell Sage Foundation.

This is the first of a series of volumes dealing with the changing pattern of men’s aspirations for their society during a long and critical period in the history of western Europe. The present volume is an essay commenting on the subject and presenting conclusions drawn from a considerable mass of available evidence. Topics include the decline of the Middle Ages and the emergency of endemic poverty in the sixteenth century, the gradual assumption of national responsibility for the poor, the evolution of the charitable trust, the literature of exhortation, and the changing structure of class aspirations.

Wilbur Kitchener Jordan was president of Radcliffe College and professor of history at Harvard University.

This 1933 survey of moneylending in Great Britain is part of a general survey of small loans prepared for the Russell Sage Foundation, the Small Loan Series of the Department of Remedial Loans. It traces the development of British moneylending by chronological periods and aims to show the devices whereby the enterprise of moneylending has adapted itself to its changing legal, economic, and social environments.

Dorothy Johnson Orchard was research assistant at the Russell Sage Foundation. Geoffrey May was a member of the Inner Temple, London.

Featuring “A Study of the Collective Agreement between the United Mine Workers of America and the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company” and “An Analysis of the Problem of Coal in the United States.” Part of the Industrial Relations Series of the Russell Sage Foundation, studying the experience in organizing relations between employers and employees in the United States with a view to giving the workers a larger measure of participation in the management of industry and documenting the fundamental changes taking place in industry related to human welfare, well-being, and the standard of living.

Mary Van Kleeck was director industrial studies at the Russell Sage Foundation.