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Psychological Test in Vocational Guidance

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by Leonard P. Ayres
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Publication Date
6 pages

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This booklet, reprinted from The Journal of Educational Psychology of April 1913, discusses tests used to select people for various jobs. It notes that some tests focus on vision, hearing, and color discrimination. Other tests are psychological evaluations, which aim to select among applicants those best fitted to perform the work.

LEONARD P. AYRES was director of the Division of Education at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Industrial Disputes and the Canadian Act

Author
Ben M. Selekman
Ebook
Publication Date
42 pages

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This booklet discusses the Canadian Industrial Disputes Investigation Act of 1907, which made it illegal to declare a strike or lockout in mines or other public utilities until a full investigation into the merits of the dispute was completed. Topics include procedure under the act, serious strikes in the West, the act as a failure in coal mining, railroads and other public utilities, violations of the act, penalties not enforced, and lessons for the United States. Appendixes provide statistical tables and a bibliography.

BEN M. SELEKMAN worked in the Department of Industrial Studies at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Cover image of the book The Miners’ Case and the Public Interest: A Documented Chronology
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The Miners’ Case and the Public Interest: A Documented Chronology

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Edward A. Wieck
Ebook
Publication Date
92 pages

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This booklet provides material related to a dispute between operators and miners in the bituminous-coal industry. After an introduction by Mary van Kleeck, director of the Department of Industrial Studies at the Russell Sage Foundation, it provides documents including an agreement between the mine workers and the coal mine administrator, the federal mine safety code, executive orders, and legal decisions.

EDWARD A. WIECK was a research associate in the Department of Industrial Studies at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Cover image of the book The Usurer’s Grip: A Motion-Picture Film on the Evils of the Usurious Money-lending Business
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The Usurer’s Grip: A Motion-Picture Film on the Evils of the Usurious Money-lending Business

Author
Arthur H. Ham
Ebook
Publication Date
3 pages

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This booklet provides a summary of a film about a clerk in need of money after his child falls ill. The clerk borrows money from a loan company at ruinous rates and ends up having to mortgage his furniture. With an attorney’s help, he prevents his furniture from being seized, and thorough membership in a cooperative savings and loan association, he can put money away for the future. The booklet ends by explaining how the film may be obtained.

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

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People’s Banks

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Arthur H. Ham
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Publication Date
13 pages

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This booklet reprints an address delivered before the National Conference of Charities and Correction in Indianapolis, Indiana, on May 15, 1916. It includes a list of publications on cooperative credit published by the Russell Sage Foundation. The author argues that it cooperative credit associations are best suited to advancing money to the workingman. He notes that in the United States this type of association is known as a credit union and is designed to encourage thrift, promote industry, and train its members in business methods and self-government.

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

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Credit Unions (Yiddish translation)

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Alphonse Desjardins
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Publication Date
52 pages

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This booklet is the Yiddish translation of “The Cooperative People’s Bank.”

ALPHONSE DESJARDINS was president and manager of La Caisse Populaire de Levis and general director of L’Action Populaire Economique.

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Cover image of the book The Constitutionality of Small Loan Legislation
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The Constitutionality of Small Loan Legislation

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Frank R. Hubachek
Ebook
Publication Date
50 pages

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This booklet was intended to form part of the legal section of a general survey of small loans prepared by the Russell Sage Foundation. Topics include the small loan business subject to regulation under police power, regulations restrained in part by state and federal constitutions, small loan legislation valid under the principle of constitutional classification, miscellaneous constitutional requirements, and who may raise questions on the constitutionality of statuses and general principles followed by courts in determining them. A table of cases is provided.

FRANK R. HUBACHEK was a member of the bar of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Cover image of the book The Provident Loan Society of New York: An Account of the Largest Remedial Loan Society
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The Provident Loan Society of New York: An Account of the Largest Remedial Loan Society

Author
Rolf Nugent
Ebook
Publication Date
24 pages

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This booklet discusses the Provident Loan Society of New York, which was created to make emergency loans in response to the financial panic of 1893–1894. It presents the society’s act of incorporation, its constitution, and a list of remedial loan societies operating in 1932.

ROLF NUGENT worked in the Department of Remedial Loans at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Cover image of the book The English Hire-Purchase Act of 1938: A Measure to Regulate Instalment Selling
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The English Hire-Purchase Act of 1938: A Measure to Regulate Instalment Selling

Author
John E. Hamm
Ebook
Publication Date
59 pages

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This booklet discusses the English Hire-Purchase Act of 1938 which dealt with restrictions on repossession, provisions for termination of agreements, requirements regarding the form and content of legal instruments, and the contracts to which the act was applicable. The booklet covers each of these topics and includes two appendixes: a chronology of the Hire-Purchase Bill and the text of the Hire-Purchase Act.

JOHN E. HAMM was assistant director of the Department of Consumer Credit Studies at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Seventh Draft of the Uniform Small Loan Law

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Department of Consumer Credit Studies
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Publication Date
19 pages

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This booklet presents the draft of the Uniform Small Loan Law, regulating lending in the amounts of $300

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