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Preventive Agencies and Methods

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Charles Richmond Henderson
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Publication Date
452 pages

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A volume of the Correction and Prevention papers prepared for the Eighth International Prison Congress in 1910, published by the Charities Publication Committee of the Russell Sage Foundation.

CHARLES RICHMOND HENDERSON was professor of sociology in the University of Chicago and commissioner for the United States on the International Prison Commission.

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The Credit Union and the Cooperative Store

Author
Arthur H. Ham
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Publication Date
9 pages

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Address delivered at the Conference of Eastern Cooperative Societies of the Cooperative League of America. Published by the Russell Sage Foundation Division of Remedial Loans in 1917.

ARTHUR H. HAM was director of the remedial loans division of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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The Chattel Loan Business

Author
Arthur H. Ham
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Publication Date
65 pages

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A report prepared under the direction of the Bureau of Social Research, of the New York School of Philanthropy. Published by the Russell Sage Charities Committee in 1909.

ARTHUR H. HAM was director of the remedial loans division of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Technology and Livelihood

An Inquiry into the Changing Technological Basis for Production as Affecting Employment and Living Standards
Authors
Mary L. Fledderus
Mary van Kleeck
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Publication Date
236 pages

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Documented with materials quoted from scientific, governmental reports and arranged to describe new technological developments and their effects on productivity and labor requirements.

MARY L. FLEDDERUS was research associate of the Department of Industrial Studies of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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

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Governmental Organization Within the City of New York

Author
Robert H. Connery
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Publication Date
46 pages

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This pamphlet and its accompanying charts are intended to provide a brief description of governmental organizations of the city of New York. Some mention also is made of county, state, and the federal agencies as well as of public authorities which operate within the boundaries of the city.

ROBERT H. CONNERY was professor emeritus of public law and government at Columbia University and deputy city administrator of New York.

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Workingmen's Insurance in Europe

Authors
Lee K. Frankel
Miles M. Dawson
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Publication Date
502 pages

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The Russell Sage Foundation early in 1908 carried out a study on insurance in Europe. This volume presents the results of the study conducted by Frankel and Dawson, covering about six months, it gives full detail on the various kinds of European insurance, their methods of operation, their finances and their relations with governments.

LEE K. FRANKEL was vice-president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.

MILES M. DAWSON was fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Actuarial Society of America.

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Co-Operation in New England

Urban and Rural
Author
James Ford
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Publication Date
268 pages

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A investigation into the scope of industrial co-operation in New England, begun in 1907. Industrial co-operation in this study was "limited to the associations for the production and distribution of the immediate necessities of life."

JAMES FORD was instructor in social ethics at Harvard University.

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Work-Accidents and the Law

Author
Crystal Eastman
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458 pages

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A volume of the Pittsburgh Survey, six volumes edited by Paul Underwood Kellogg.

CRYSTAL EASTMAN was secretary at the New York State Employers Liability commission.

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Cover image of the book The Standard of Living Among Workingmen's Families in New York City
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The Standard of Living Among Workingmen's Families in New York City

Author
Robert Coit Chapin
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Publication Date
403 pages

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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.

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Public Pensions to Widows with Children

A Study of Their Administration in Several American Cities
Author
C. C. Carstens
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Publication Date
39 pages

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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.

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