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Studying Your Community

Author
Roland L. Warren
Ebook
Publication Date
385 pages

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This book, published in 1955, is a successor to Joanna C. Colcord's Your Community: Its Provision for Health, Education, Safety, and Welfare, published by the Russell Sage Foundation in 1939. It is designed as a broadly conceived working manual of community study aimed at not just social workers, like its predecessor, but a more varied group of citizens. It details procedures for conducting the survey, both in its organizational and methodological aspects.

ROLAND L. WARREN was professor of sociology at Alfred University.

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The War Program of the State of South Carolina

Author
Hastings H. Hart
Ebook
Publication Date
68 pages

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This 1918 report, containing a suggested "War Program," is based on a first-hand study of the various agencies and the war conditions under which they were operating during World War I. It argues for the enlargement of social service and welfare work for veterans and their dependents and was published under the authority of Governor Richard I. Manning, the State Council of Defense, and the State Board of Charities and Corrections.

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

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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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Civic Bibliography for Greater New York

Author
James Bronson Reynolds
Ebook
Publication Date
318 pages

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A bibliography of published research on social conditions in New York City. Published by the Russell Sage Foundation's Charities Publication Committee in 1911.

JAMES BRONSON REYNOLDS was the president of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology.

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The Topeka Improvement Survey

Authors
Franz Schneider, Jr.
Zenas L. Potter
D. O. Decker
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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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Cover image of the book The Unused Recreational Resources of the Average Community
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The Unused Recreational Resources of the Average Community

Author
Clarence Arthur Perry
Ebook
Publication Date
16 pages

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Address given before the Society for the Promotion of Social Service in the Young Men's Christian Association, New Haven, 1911.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

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Self-Government on a County Prison Farm

Author
V. Everit Macy
Ebook
Publication Date
13 pages

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Presented at the fifty-first congress of the American Prison Association in 1921, this paper presents the structure of the Westchester County Penitentiary, whose prisoners are employed on the farm the penitentiary rests on. It argues that, instead of being a liability to the county, the prison is an asset, and that, instead of being a place of punishment, it is a training school that returns its wards to society as better men because of their experiences on the farm. Key to this system is that the prisoners are self-governing through a method of classification and rewards that is outlined in detail in this paper.

V. EVERIT MACY was commissioner of public welfare, Westchester County, N.Y.

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Governmental Organization Within the City of New York

Author
Robert H. Connery
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Publication Date
46 pages

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This pamphlet and its accompanying charts are intended to provide a brief description of governmental organizations of the city of New York. Some mention also is made of county, state, and the federal agencies as well as of public authorities which operate within the boundaries of the city.

ROBERT H. CONNERY was professor emeritus of public law and government at Columbia University and deputy city administrator of New York.

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Workingmen's Insurance in Europe

Authors
Lee K. Frankel
Miles M. Dawson
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Publication Date
502 pages

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The Russell Sage Foundation early in 1908 carried out a study on insurance in Europe. This volume presents the results of the study conducted by Frankel and Dawson, covering about six months, it gives full detail on the various kinds of European insurance, their methods of operation, their finances and their relations with governments.

LEE K. FRANKEL was vice-president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.

MILES M. DAWSON was fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Actuarial Society of America.

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Work-Accidents and the Law

Author
Crystal Eastman
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Publication Date
458 pages

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A volume of the Pittsburgh Survey, six volumes edited by Paul Underwood Kellogg.

CRYSTAL EASTMAN was secretary at the New York State Employers Liability commission.

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