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The Transportation Problem in American Social Work

Including an Account of the Origin and Development of The Transportation Agreement
Author
Jeffrey R. Brackett
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Publication Date
38 pages

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This pamphlet reviews the work of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, as well as the National Conference of Jewish Charities, in regard to relief and care for the homeless. It was written while the Transient Division of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the first nationwide program for the care of the homeless, was in operation.

Jeffrey R. Brackett was chairman of advisory board, Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare.

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Cover image of the book Receiving Home for Foundlings and for Mothers with Their Babies
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Receiving Home for Foundlings and for Mothers with Their Babies

The New Type Foundling Asylum
Author
Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation
Ebook
Publication Date
8 pages

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A model aimed for use by various institutions that provide asylum to orphaned children and struggling mothers, including temporary receiving homes into which mothers who might otherwise abandon their children are received with them. The model is designed to exhibited the chief sanitary features which the medical profession recognize as essential to success in saving the lives and improving the vitality of the babies who must have institutional care temporarily.

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Cover image of the book A Comparative Study of Public School Systems in the Forty-Eight States
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A Comparative Study of Public School Systems in the Forty-Eight States

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Division of Education of the Russell Sage Foundation
Ebook
Publication Date
36 pages

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From the foreword: “Every other winter the legislatures of about forty states meet in deliberative session. They consider approximately 1,000 bills on educational questions and enact about 200 of them into law. This pamphlet has been compiled with the object of making available to legislators, school workers, and others having at heart the interests of public education, salient facts concerning school conditions in all the states. The figures have been derived from official sources and every care exercised to insure their accuracy. Every endeavor has been made to avoid complexities and technicalities. The object of the work is to render available to each state the experience of all.

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Cover image of the book Plans and Illustrations of Prisons and Reformatories
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Plans and Illustrations of Prisons and Reformatories

Author
Hastings H. Hart
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Publication Date
62 pages

About This Book

Presented at the Fifty-Second Congress of the American Prison Association in Detroit, October, 1922, this pamphlet presents a selection of noteworthy plans and illustrations, with special reference to unusual or improved features. The plans selected include state prisons in New York and Alabama and tentative plans for a state prison and a state reformatory, plans for single buildings at two reformatories for women, plans for cottages at two reformatories for boys, and tentative plans for a metropolitan jail designed by the writer with special reference to the needs of Chicago.

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

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The Burden of Unemployment

A Study of Unemployment Relief Measures in Fifteen American Cities, 1921–22
Author
Philip Klein
Ebook
Publication Date
260 pages

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A report concerning what to do with the distress caused by unemployment and how the community is to bear the burden imposed upon it, aiming to serve community agencies that must deal with the phases of unemployment during times of industrial depression.

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Community Center Activities

Author
Clarence Arthur Perry
Ebook
Publication Date
127 pages

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The purpose of this handbook is to suggest activities for after-school occasions and to indicate sources of information about them. The material is arranged in such a way as to serve readily community-center officials who view problems of organization objectively, who regard themselves as trustees of certain spaces and facilities in a school building which they are to utilize for the enhancement of the neighborhood’s common life.

Clarence Arthur Perry, Department of Recreation of the Russell Sage Foundation

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Cover image of the book Employes’ Representation in Coal Mines
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Employes’ Representation in Coal Mines

A Study of the Industrial Representation Plan of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
Authors
Ben M. Selekman
Mary van Kleeck
Ebook
Publication Date
454 pages

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A report on the relations, organized under the Rockefeller Plan, between the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, a company operating several coal mines, a large steel works, and a railroad, and its employees, part of a series of inquiries into industrial relations.

Ben M. Selekman, Department of Industrial Studies, Russell Sage Foundation

Mary van Kleeck, Department of Industrial Studies, Russell Sage Foundation

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Cover image of the book The Girls’ Branch of the Public Schools Athletic League of New York City
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The Girls’ Branch of the Public Schools Athletic League of New York City

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The Department of Child Hygiene of the Russell Sage Foundation
Ebook
Publication Date
13 pages

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A look at athletic exercises promoted by the Girls’ Branch of the Public Schools Athletic League, including folk dancing, relays, and athletic competitions. From the Playground Association Committee of America.

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The Settlement Horizon

A National Estimate
Authors
Robert A. Woods
Albert J. Kennedy
Ebook
Publication Date
511 pages

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An exploration of settlements throughout the United States, in particular non-residential neighborhood centers, covering a range of interests, including history, educational approaches, and connections to labor.

ROBERT A. WOODS, New York Charities Publication Committee

ALBERT J. KENNEDY, New York Charities Publication Committee

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The Good Neighbor in the Modern City

Second Edition
Author
Mary E. Richmond
Ebook
Publication Date
158 pages

About This Book

This book examines the work of early-twentieth century charity organizations, in particular those in urban environments.

Mary E. Richmond was the author of “Friendly Visiting Among the Poor,” general secretary of the Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity

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