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Technology and Livelihood

An Inquiry into the Changing Technological Basis for Production as Affecting Employment and Living Standards
Authors
Mary L. Fledderus
Mary van Kleeck
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236 pages

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Documented with materials quoted from scientific, governmental reports and arranged to describe new technological developments and their effects on productivity and labor requirements.

MARY L. FLEDDERUS was research associate of the Department of Industrial Studies of the Russell Sage Foundation.

MARY VAN KLEECK was director of the Department of Industrial Studies of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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A Study of Results of Institutional Care

Author
William J. Doherty
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Publication Date
17 pages

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A paper read before the children's section of the National Conference of Charities and Correction in Baltimore in May of 1915. Published by the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

WILLIAM J. DOHERTY was second deputy commissioner in the department of public charities of New York City.

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The Function of College Athletics

Author
James Roscoe Day
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Publication Date
12 pages

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Reprinted from the proceedings of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States, 1909. A report published by the Department of Child Hygiene of the Russell Sage Foundation.

JAMES ROSCOE DAY was chancellor of Syracuse University.

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Work-Accidents and the Law

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Crystal Eastman
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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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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
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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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Cover image of the book The Southern Highlander and His Homeland
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The Southern Highlander and His Homeland

Author
John C. Campbell
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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
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Publication Date
34 pages

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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
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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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