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What Social Workers Should Know About Their Own Communities

An Outline
Author
Margaret F. Byington
Ebook
Publication Date
44 pages

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This 1911 pamphlet is an outline to aid those enlisted in social work as a profession, a cursory review of local conditions that look at the new topics that have informed social work in the 20th century, such as industry, child labor, city administration, and community organization.

MARGARET F. BYINGTON was associate director of the charity organization department of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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The Development of Probation

Author
Charles L. Chute
Ebook
Publication Date
8 pages

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A presentation at the Fifty-First Congress of the American Prison Association in Jacksonville, Florida.

CHARLES L. CHUTE was secretary of the National Probation Association in New York

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Public Pensions to Widows with Children

A Study of Their Administration in Several American Cities
Author
C. C. Carstens
Ebook
Publication Date
39 pages

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For three months beginning August 1, 1912, Mr. Carstens was commissioned by the Russell Sage Foundation to study the actual working of public pensions to widows with children in certain western communities.

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

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The Southern Highlander and His Homeland

Author
John C. Campbell
Ebook
Publication Date
504 pages

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The following pages are the outcome of twenty-five years of life and experience in the mountain country of the South, taken on by John C. Campbell. From his time as a teacher in a remote section of the mountains, until the time of his death, when he was Secretary of the Southern Highland Division of the Russell Sage Foundation, he was continuously engaged in the service of the Highland people.

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The Confidential Exchange

A Form of Social Co-Operation
Author
Margaret F. Byington
Ebook
Publication Date
34 pages

About This Book

This report, prepared by the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation in 1912, is an account of the methods of exchanges, charity indexes cataloguing relief and resources in an area, then in operation in the United States. It comprises of the author’s research around the oldest exchange conducted by the Boston Associated Charities, a list of the reasons behind the growth in interest around exchanges at the time, and an account of their administration and office details.

MARGARET F. BYINGTON was associate director of the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Women and the Trades

Pittsburgh 1907-1908
Author
Elizabeth Beardsley Butler
Ebook
Publication Date
504 pages

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A volume in the Pittsburgh Survey, edited by Paul Underwood Kellogg. The Pittsburgh Survey had been planned by the editors of "Charities and The Commons" before the organization of the Russell Sage Foundation. The Charities Publication Committee accepted and assumed responsibility for the project.

ELIZABETH BEARDSLEY BUTLER was secretary of the Consumers League of New Jersey.

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Proceedings of the Second Annual Playground Congress

Editor
Anna L. von der Osten
Ebook
Publication Date
556 pages

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The proceedings of the Second Annual Playground Congress of the Playground Association of America. The congress was held in New York in 1908, under the presidency of the Hon, George B. McClellan, Mayor of New York City.

ANNA L. VON DER OSTEN was officer of the Playground Association of America.

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The Doctor and His Patient

A Sociological Interpretation
Author
Samuel W. Bloom
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Publication Date
262 pages

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The Doctor and His Patient documents the rapid changes in health at the time of publication in 1963, spurred on by technology and the social organization of medicine, and how these developments influence the relationship between doctor and patient. It also explores the implications of these changes for medical education, serving as a guide for students of medicine and other health professions.

SAMUEL W. BLOOM was associate professor of sociology at the State University of New York College of Medicine Downstate Medical Center.

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Handbook of Settlements

Editors
Robert A. Woods
Albert J. Kennedy
Ebook
Publication Date
351 pages

About This Book

Published in 1911 and designed to continue a service rendered by the Bibliography of Settlements until 1905, this handbook presents an outline of the material facts about every settlement in the United States at the time, including non-residential neighborhood centers. In addition to previous research and literature, information is presented from first-hand accounts at these houses from leading representatives on the development and program of settlements.

ROBERT A. WOODS, New York Charities Publication Committee

ALBERT J. KENNEDY, New York Charities Publication Committee

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Visiting Nursing

In the United States
Author
Yssabella Waters
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Publication Date
386 pages

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A directory of the organizations employing trained visiting nurses, with chapters on the principles, organization and methods of administration of such work.

YSSABELLA WATERS, Henry Street Nurses’ Settlement, New York City

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