From the foreword by Fedele F. Fauri, then dean of the University of Michigan School of Social Work: “In the field of social welfare it is often urged that in-service training and reduced workloads are available and effective means of improving service. Such proposals are in keeping with other efforts to raise standards in the public assistance programs. Little evidence from research is available, however, to test the arguments on the subject. This monograph contributes a careful evaluation of experiments with these measures. The study was conducted in the Michigan State Department of Social Welfare and concerned cases carried in the Aid to Dependent Children Program.”

Edwin J. Thomas was associate professor of social work and of psychology at the University of Michigan. Donna L. McLeod was research associate at the University of Michigan. Pauline Bushey was assistant professor of social work at the University of Michigan. Lydia F. Hylton was research assistant at the University of Michigan. In collaboration with Pauline Bushey and Lydio F. Hylton.

A study of unemployment in New Haven published in 1932. Contrasts by sex, marital status, age, industry, and occupation are analyzed, among others.

Margaret H. Hogg, Department of Statistics, Russell Sage Foundation

This 1937 report has to do with people in the Appalachian Mountain region whose chief concern with handicrafts was the income they would bring, as they offered the only means by which to earn money. One purpose was to show how indispensable handicrafts were in the economy of countless families throughout the region; a second was to show the other rewards handicrafts brought to these same people, what they added to the social and recreational life for the communities in which they carried on, their educational and cultural significance, the esthetic enjoyment they fostered, their help in the field of therapeutics, and the sense of emotional security they gave. Containing fifty-eight illustrations form photographs taken for the work by Doris Ulmann.

Allen H. Eaton was the author of Immigrant Gifts to American Life and part of the Department of Surveys of the Russell Sage Foundation.

Published in 1965, Foundations: 20 Viewpoints made readily available some of the significant and timely discussions of foundations that had appeared in Foundation News, the bimonthly Bulletin issued by the Foundation Library Center. The articles fall into three general categories: broad discussions of private philanthropy and foundations, lists of recent fields in which foundations make grants and operations, and a section on running foundations.

Contributors: Everett Case, Mortimer M. Caplin, Philip S. Broughton, Raymond B. Fosdick, Dyke Brown, J.G. Harrar, Donald Young, W. McNeil Lowry, Paul N. Ylvisaker, Homer C. Wadsworth, G. Harold Duling, Warren Weaver, James A. Perkins, Dean Rusk, Robert H. Mulreany, Rembrandt C. Hiller Jr., Manning M. Pattillo, Yorke Allen Jr.

F. Emerson Andrews was director of publications at the Russell Sage Foundation.

With a foreword by Mary Van Kleeck. Part of the Industrial Relations Series, a series by the Department of Industrial Studies of the Russell Sage Foundation investigating early twentieth-century experiments in the organization of relations between employers and employees in industrial enterprises in the United States. This volume examined William Filene’s Sons Company, a Boston department store, particularly the development of its human relations as an integral part of its business aims and its methods of management.

Mary La Dame, Department of Industrial Studies, Russell Sage Foundation

With a foreword by Mary Van Kleeck. Part of the Industrial Relations Series, a series by the Department of Industrial Studies of the Russell Sage Foundation investigating early twentieth-century experiments in the organization of relations between employers and employees in industrial enterprises in the United States. How a company, which operated more than twenty bituminous coal mines, a large steel works, and a railroad in Colorado, undertook to organize its relations with its workers by instituting a plan of “employes’ representation” is the subject of two studies, one on coal mines and one on steel works.

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

Material for this study was collected during the summer and early autumn of 1931, in response to a request from the President’s Organization on Unemployment Relief. Thirty communities were visited, and the reports on work relief carried out in 26 of them, chiefly situated in the middle, eastern, and southern states, can be found in Part II.

Joanna C. Colcord was director of the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation. Assisted by William C. Koplovitz and Russell H. Kurtz.

Education and Training for Social Work examines vocational training in social work. The study is divided into two parts: part I, the field of social work, and part II, problems of education and training. Appendices include statistics on salaries and years of education, as well as registration statistics from institutions which offer preparation for social work.

James H. Tufts was professor of philosophy in the University of Chicago.

This 1940 volume presents a discussion of the development of civil service and social work. From the foreword: “Discussions with the Civil Service Committee of the New York City Chapter of the American Association of Social Workers resulted in a definite request from that body that the Charity Organization Department of the Foundation attempt to issue a ‘manual’ for the guidance of groups of social workers engaged in studying their local civil service problems, or participating in the processes of selection for social work positions. To undertake this task the Department was fortunate in securing Alice Campbell Klein, whose many years of experience as a worker in the fields of public health and social work, as assistant editor of the Encyclopedia of the Social Services, and later as a staff member of the Joint Vocational Service, had familiarized her with general problems in social work.”

Encyclopedic in scope, Academic Women on the Move is an important volume on a vital topic. In twenty-one chapters specially written for this book by distinguished women, the authors summarize the vast research literature on women in higher education. They bring together and compare hundreds of studies on the problems and status of academic women, from their entry as students through their career development and eventual status as researchers, faculty members, and administrators. In addition the book gives an equally detailed account of the emergence of political activism among these women in the 1968–1972 period, with analytic chapters on the legal, internal, and external routes to rid academe of sex discrimination. A wide-ranging exploration of recent professional and political efforts to improve the status of women in American academic life, this book will serve as a superb research and reference work for years to come.

Contributors: Carol Ahlum, Helen S. Astin, Alan Bayer, Ann Calderwood, Jean Campbell, Constance M. Carroll, Marianne A. Ferber, Jo Freeman, Patricia Albjerg Graham, Judith Dozier Hackman, Florence Howe, Joan Huber, Katherine M. Klotzburger, Janet Lever, Jane Loeb, Laura Morlock, Katherine Nelson, Michelle Patterson, Cynthia Sterling Pincus, Brigitte A. Prusoff, Lora Hnizda Robinson, Pamela Roby, Alice S. Rossi, Margaret Rumbarger, Bernice Sandler, Pepper Schwartz, Lucy W. Sells, Myrna M. Weissman, Lenore J. Weitzman

Alice S. Rossi was professor of sociology and chairperson of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Goucher College.

Ann Calderwood was publisher and editor of Feminist Studies.