The formal structures of national labor law have changed little over the last 80 years and no amendments have been made in over 40 years. Despite attempts by labor unions and their allies to update the law to reflect contemporary labor market conditions, opponents have successfully blocked reforms.
Co-funded with the Washington Center for Equitable Growth
A review of the development of the community center as a distinct institution and government agency, ten years after such a proposal was made to reformers the 1911 First National Conference on Civic and Social Center Development. The article first appeared in 1921 in the New York Evening Post and reprinted in the September-October 1921 number of the Community Center.
CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation
An address delivered before the Association at the National Recreation Congress in 1908 that points out how fundamental recreation, as well as the public spaces that provide it, can be.
CHARLES EVANS HUGHES was Governor of New York and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
This paper, from the Playground Extension Committee of the Russell Sage Foundation, explores the various questions and decisions that come into play for a government body in regards to the construction of a new public recreation space.
GEORGE HIBBARD was mayor of Boston, Massachusetts.
A volume of the Pittsburgh Survey, this 1915 report explains how a system involving land classes and ward rates in Pittsburgh added up to an unfair system that placed the heaviest tax burden on the lower class. It offers recommendations for reform.
SHELBY M. HARRISON was director of the Department of Surveys and Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation.
Read at the meeting of the Academy of Political Science in 1911, this address proposes a program for patrolling small loans to combat usury, calling for competition in the form of semi-philanthropic loan agencies and cooperative associations and legislation to legalize and regulate such a program.
ARTHUR H. HAM was director of the Division of Remedial Loans at the Russell Sage Foundation.
A volume of the Topeka Improvement Survey, a survey of health conditions in Topeka, Kansas, in 1914, this report centers on the administrative bodies of the city government, as well as the financial measures taken to fund these. Published with A Public Health Survey of Topeka by Franz Schneider, Jr., Delinquency and Corrections by Zenas L. Potter, and Industrial Conditions in Topeka by Zenas L. Potter.
D. O. DECKER was special agent of the Department of Surveys and Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation.
Online labor markets represent the future of work for many job applicants. Online markets now support a range of occupations including nursing care, computer programming, deliveries, and ridesharing. Jobs can range from “micro-tasks” that take minutes to complete (such as Mechanical Turk) to complex projects that require multiple-week commitments for a team of freelancers. While employers and employees can find such jobs through gender- and race-blind searches, some research suggests that inequalities by race and gender persist in online settings.
Recent studies find that legislators are more responsive to the interests of the affluent than to those of middle and lower-income voters. The wealthiest donors account for increasing proportions of political donations, which have been identified as a source of political influence. Some scholars have probed the institutional and network ties among wealthy donors. But scholars have overlooked the sustained efforts of organized groups and networks of donors who work together over many years, not just during elections, to influence political outcomes.
