This booklet reports on the results of a survey on school social centers sent to 774 school superintendents. It includes charts on cities that reported having schoolhouse social or recreation centers at which there were some paid workers and that reported schools with libraries. The booklet also discusses civic aspects of recent social-center development.
CLARENCE A. PERRY was an urban planner, sociologist, and educator.
This booklet, reprinted from The Journal of Educational Psychology of April 1913, discusses tests used to select people for various jobs. It notes that some tests focus on vision, hearing, and color discrimination. Other tests are psychological evaluations, which aim to select among applicants those best fitted to perform the work.
LEONARD P. AYRES was director of the Division of Education at the Russell Sage Foundation.
This booklet discusses the Canadian Industrial Disputes Investigation Act of 1907, which made it illegal to declare a strike or lockout in mines or other public utilities until a full investigation into the merits of the dispute was completed. Topics include procedure under the act, serious strikes in the West, the act as a failure in coal mining, railroads and other public utilities, violations of the act, penalties not enforced, and lessons for the United States. Appendixes provide statistical tables and a bibliography.
BEN M. SELEKMAN worked in the Department of Industrial Studies at the Russell Sage Foundation.
This booklet provides statistical information, in the form of many tables, on school centers—a school that is used regularly at least one evening a week for two or more activities.
CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY worked in the Department of Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.
This booklet reprints an article published in The Family of July 1930. It notes that during the summer of 1929, at the request of the Family Welfare Association of America, the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation studied the salaries paid by the member agencies of the association. The study included information on the number of weeks of vacation allowed with pay to each worker on the staff. The booklet reports the results of the study.
RALPH G. HURLIN was director of the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation.
This booklet reprints an article from the Proceedings of the Sixtieth Annual Session of the National Conference of Social Work in Detroit in June 1933. The article notes that in 1930, for the first time, the federal census of occupations included in its classification a separate category for social workers. One purpose of the article was to comment on the quality of the data. A second purpose was to present data derived from this first countrywide enumeration concerning the relative number of social workers in different parts of the country in comparison with other professional or near-professional groups.
RALPH G. HURLIN was director of the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation.
This booklet presents the results of a study of salaries and certain related work conditions in the field of medical social work made by the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation in 1937. The study's main purpose was to estimate the current salary levels for various positions in this type of social work and to indicate the variations in these levels. The study was a sequel to one made in 1933, which recorded a general decline in medical social work salaries from 1930 to 1933, and it was planned to show how much improvement, if any, had been realized by these workers during four years of recovery.
RALPH G. HURLIN was director of the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation.
This booklet summarizes statistics of casework operations in 1937 reported monthly to the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation by a selected group of private family welfare agencies. It includes information on the quality of the data, month-to-month changes, active cases per month, and amount of relief per case, among other topics.
RALPH G. HURLIN was director of the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation.
This booklet continues a series of similar annual summaries of operating statistics of private family welfare agencies issued since 1936. It is based on data reported monthly and made available to the reporting agencies and others in a monthly table of comparative statistics.
RALPH G. HURLIN was director of the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation.
During 1944 the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation continued the collection of statistics of the operations of family casework organizations with the same sixty agencies that participated in the two preceding years. This booklet contains detailed comparative statistics of the work of those agencies for the calendar year 1944, derived from their reported monthly statistics. It also records service trends, shown by these and corresponding earlier data, for the nine-year period 1936 to 1944.
RALPH G. HURLIN was director of the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation.