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The Salary Loan Business in New York City

Author
Clarence W. Wassam
Hardcover
Publication Date
155 pages

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A report on the findings of a study of the loan businesses in New York City from 1907-1908, part of a larger set of studies of fiscal agencies exploiting the necessities of the poor. The study was commissioned by the Bureau of Social Research of the New York School of Philanthropy, published by the Russell Sage Foundation.

CLARENCE W. WASSAM, Bureau of Social Research, New York School of Philanthropy

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Investigations of Industries in New York City

A List of Published Reports 1905 - 1915
Author
Henriette R. Walter
Ebook
Publication Date
28 pages

About This Book

Published jointly by the Committee for Vocational Scholarship of the Henry Street Settlement and the Committee on Women's Work of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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

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What is Social Case Work?

An Introductory Description
Author
Mary E. Richmond
Ebook
Publication Date
268 pages

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This introduction to social case work was published in 1922 as part of the Russell Sage Foundation's Social Work Series. The different forms of social work and their interrelations in the school, workshop, hospital, and court are analyzed.

MARY E. RICHMOND was director of the Charity Organization Department at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Education of Dependent Children in Institutions

To accompany round table plan for trustees of institutions for dependent children
Author
C. Spencer Richardson
Ebook
Publication Date
26 pages

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One of a series of monographs prepared by the Foundation's Department of Child-Helping to accompany round table meetings of trustees of  institutions caring for children. The Education of Dependent Children in Institutions discusses the academic and vocational aspects of the subject, social, moral and religious considerations are put forth in another monograph of the series.

C. SPENCER RICHARDSON was associate director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Household Management

Author
Florence Nesbitt
Ebook
Publication Date
170 pages
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A volume of the Russell Sage Foundation's Social Work Series, written in 1918.  The book is primarily a home economics study of how low-income households of the time managed money.

FLORENCE NESBITT was director of the food conservation section of the Cleveland Women's Committee of the Council of National Defense.

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The Campaign Against the Loan Shark

Author
Arthur H. Ham
Ebook
Publication Date
7 pages

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A pamphlet published by the Russell Sage Division of Remedial Loans in 1912.

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Measurements as Applied to School Hygiene

Author
Luther H. Gulick
Ebook
Publication Date
11 pages

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This pamphlet argues for definite measurements of results in the study of school hygiene and other areas in order to improve the school system. It was published by the Department of Child Hygiene of the Russell Sage Foundation in 1911.

LUTHER H. GULICK was director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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The Steel Workers

Author
John A. Fitch
Ebook
Publication Date
380 pages

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A look at the steel industry in Pittsburgh, this book is a volume of the Pittsburgh Survey, published in 1911. The Steel Workers deals with the work-relationships of the steel men, documenting their harsh working conditions and the union movement.

JOHN A. FITCH was a fellow at the University of Wisconsin and an expert at the New York State Department of Labor.

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A Community Plan in Children's Work

A Report Presented at the National Conference of Charities and Correction, May 1915
Author
C. C. Carstens
Ebook
Publication Date
12 pages

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An address presented at one of 47 different sessions of the Forty-Second National Conference of Charities and Correction, held in Baltimore for a week in May 1915.

C. C. CARSTENS was secretary and general agent of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

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The Coal Miners' Insecurity

Facts About Irregularity of Employment in the Bituminous Coal Industry in the United States
Author
Louis Bloch
Ebook
Publication Date
50 pages

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This pamphlet, published in 1922, is a collection of data drawn from publications issued by various state and federal bureaus, which show some of the economic facts behind the unrest of the miners in the bituminous or soft coal industry. It aims to outline certain vital facts which affected the daily working life of the coal miner and explain the workers’ willingness to strike in defense of wages.

LOUIS BLOCH, Department of Industrial Studies, Russell Sage Foundation

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