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Social Problems of Alabama

Author
Hastings H. Hart
Ebook
Publication Date
24 pages

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A study of the social institutions and agencies of the state of Alabama, as related to its war activities.

HASTINGS H. HART was director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Munition Workers in England and France

A Summary of Reports Issued by the British Ministry of Munitions
Author
Henriette R. Walter
Ebook
Publication Date
50 pages

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A summary of reports issued by the British Ministry of Munitions published in 1917, including work on labor regulations, the employment of women and youth, and a comparison of the munitions industries of England and France.

HENRIETTE R. WALTER, Investigator, Division of Industrial Studies, Russell Sage Foundation

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Working Girls in Evening Schools

A Statistical Study
Author
Mary Van Kleeck
Ebook
Publication Date
294 pages

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A volume of a series of Russell Sage studies on the occupations of women in New York in the early 1900s.  Working Girls in Evening Schools is a report on the statistics of women attending night classes.

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

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Cover image of the book Industrial Investigations of the Russell Sage Foundation
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Industrial Investigations of the Russell Sage Foundation

Author
Mary Van Kleeck
Ebook
Publication Date
22 pages

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Published in 1915, this report presented the various industrial investigations under the Russell Sage Foundation since the foundation's organization eight years earlier and how these efforts brought about improvements in social and living conditions in the United States. Also included is a bibliography of all of the foundation's publications regarding industry up to that year.

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

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Cover image of the book Wartime Gains for the American Family
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Wartime Gains for the American Family

Author
James H. Tufts
Ebook
Publication Date
20 pages

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Address before the division on the family of the National Conference of Social Work, June 1919.

JAMES H. TUFTS was head of the department of philosophy at the University of Chicago

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Cover image of the book The Regulation of Pawnbroking
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The Regulation of Pawnbroking

Author
R. Cornelius Raby
Ebook
Publication Date
60 pages

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An examination of pawnbroking regulation in the United States, produced by the Russell Sage Foundation as part of a larger study in the field of small loans.

R. CORNELIUS RABY, Legal Department of the Provident Loan Society, New York

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Cover image of the book The Topeka Improvement Survey
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The Topeka Improvement Survey

Authors
Franz Schneider, Jr.
Zenas L. Potter
D. O. Decker
Ebook
Publication Date
276 pages

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A survey of health conditions in Topeka, Kansas in 1914, in four parts:

   A Public Health Survey of Topeka by Franz Schenider, Jr.

  Delinquency and Corrections by Zenas L. Potter

  Municipal Administration in Topeka by D.O. Decker

  Industrial Conditions in Topeka by Zenas L. Potter

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Industrial Conditions in Springfield, Illinois

Authors
Louise C. Odencrantz
Zenas L. Potter
Ebook
Publication Date
189 pages

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A survey by the Committee on Women's Work and the Department of Surveys and Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation. Part of the larger Springfield Survey of 1915.

LOUISE C. ODENCRANTZ, Department of Surveys and Exhibits, Russell Sage Foundation

ZENAS L. POTTER, Department of Surveys and Exhibits, Russell Sage Foundation

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Italian Women in Industry

A Study of Conditions in New York City
Author
Louise C. Odencrantz
Ebook
Publication Date
356 pages

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Published in 1919, Italian Women in Industry presents the findings of a study of Italian working women in New York City in the early twentieth century, touching upon the problems of both immigration and industry.

LOUISE C. ODENCRANTZ, Department of Surveys and Exhibits, Russell Sage Foundation

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Treatment

Methods Employed by Organized Charity in the Rehabilitation of Families
Author
Porter R. Lee
Ebook
Publication Date
19 pages

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An analysis of how organized charities can work efficiently to best treat families in need in regards to health, education, employment, recreation, and spiritual development.

PORTER R. LEE was general secretary of the Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity

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