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Cover image of the book Receiving Home for Foundlings and for Mothers with Their Babies
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Receiving Home for Foundlings and for Mothers with Their Babies

The New Type Foundling Asylum
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Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation
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8 pages

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A model aimed for use by various institutions that provide asylum to orphaned children and struggling mothers, including temporary receiving homes into which mothers who might otherwise abandon their children are received with them. The model is designed to exhibited the chief sanitary features which the medical profession recognize as essential to success in saving the lives and improving the vitality of the babies who must have institutional care temporarily.

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Employes’ Representation in Coal Mines

A Study of the Industrial Representation Plan of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
Authors
Ben M. Selekman
Mary van Kleeck
Ebook
Publication Date
454 pages

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A report on the relations, organized under the Rockefeller Plan, between the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, a company operating several coal mines, a large steel works, and a railroad, and its employees, part of a series of inquiries into industrial relations.

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

Mary van Kleeck, Department of Industrial Studies, Russell Sage Foundation

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Postponing Strikes

A Study of the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act of Canada
Author
Ben M. Selekman
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404 pages

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An extension of the 1916 “Industrial Disputes and the Canadian Act, Facts about Nine Years’ Experience with Compulsory Investigation in Canada” pamphlet, with a focus on whether the Canadian Industrial Disputes Investigation Act could be replicated in the United States.

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

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Under current law, the U.S. requires businesses and organizations to turn over unclaimed property to the relevant state government, which is responsible for locating the owners (or their heirs) and returning the property to the rightful individuals. This often requires a nominal fee when filing a claim and providing verification of owner identity. In fiscal year 2015, the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators reports that state governments received $7.763 billion in unclaimed property, of which only $3.235 billion was returned to the rightful owners.

Carruthers and Wanamaker seek to better understand changes in the black-white wage gap, hypothesizing that the period between 1940 and 1980 is especially important because these were the years in which first, school desegregation led to a reduction in the quality gap between black and white schools, and second, the labor market moved from one without explicit protections for racial minorities to one with codified protections in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Economist Elliott Ash and colleagues will examine how and the extent to which attitudes toward gender affect decision-making in the judicial system. They will address the measurement challenge by exploiting the large corpus of written text for appellate judges, arguing that text can provide important insights into human social psychology. The PIs will proxy judges’ attitudes toward gender by measuring the degree of language slant that is displayed by their writing.