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Housing Reform

A Handbook for Practical Use in American Cities
Author
Lawrence Veiller
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240 pages

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This book is a practical handbook on tenement reform in America. Written and researched by the New York City Tenement Department Commissioner, the handbook provides recommendations for improving conditions in tenement housing, as well as practices to avoid.

LAWRENCE VEILLER was secretary of the New York State Tenement House Commission, and First Deputy Tenement Commissioner of the Tenement Department of New York City.

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Artificial Flower Makers

Author
Mary Van Kleeck
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Publication Date
328 pages

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This book describes the results of an investigation made by the Committee on Women's Work of the Russell Sage Foundation, part of a series of studies of the condition of women's work in important trades in New York City.

MARY VAN KLEECK was secretary of the Committee on Women’s Work at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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The Family

Authors
James Hayden Tufts
Samuel McChord Crothers
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36 pages

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Two addresses, "The Ethics of the Family" and "The Enlargement of the Family Ideal, " delivered before the Section on the Family and the Community at the National Conference of Charities and Correction in Baltimore, May 1915.

JAMES HAYDEN TUFTS was professor and head of the department of philosophy at the University of Chicago.

SAMUEL MCCHORD CROTHERS was minister of the first parish church, Cambridge.

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Care of Mental Defectives, the Insane, and Alcoholics in Springfield, Illinois

A Study by the National Committee for Mental Hygiene
Author
Walter R. Treadway
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64 pages

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A special study of the Springfield Survey.

WALTER L. TREADWAY, assistant surgeon, U.S. Public Health Service.

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One Thousand Homeless Men

A Study of Original Records
Author
Alice Willard Solenberger
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384 pages

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In 1900, Alice Willard Solenberger was given charge of the Central District of the Chicago Bureau of Charities, a territory in the South Side of the city where a large number of applicants were homeless men. Recognizing the inadequate treatment of these men, Solenberger devised a new plan of treatment, adapted largely from the methods used in the treatment and investigation of families, calling for greater care, greater skill, and greater sympathy in dealing with applicants. This book presents the methods behind the new plan of treatment.

ALICE WILLARD SOLENBERGER, Central District of the Chicago Bureau of Charities

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Child Welfare Work in Louisville

A Study of Conditions, Agencies and Institutions
Author
William H. Slingerland
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Publication Date
162 pages

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A report published in 1919 by The Welfare League of Louisville, Kentucky of a Russell Sage study carried out at the behest of several Louisville social service organizations.

WILLIAM H. SLINGERLAND was a special agent in the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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The Need for Child Welfare Work in Rural Communities

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William H. Slingerland
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8 pages

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Address at the National Conference of Charities and Correction meeting in Seattle, in 1913.

WILLIAM H. SLINGERLAND was a special agent in the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Carrying out the City Plan

The Practical Application of American Law in the Execution of City Plans
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Flavel Shurtleff
Frederick Law Olmsted
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369 pages

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Carrying Out the City Plan presents the practical variations in different parts of the United States in acquiring land for public purposes and the distribution of cost for public improvements. Particular focus is placed on the design and execution of such municipal improvements as parks, playgrounds, public squares, parkways, streets, the placing of public buildings and the improvement of their grounds.

FLAVEL SHURTLEFF, Boston Bar

FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED, fellow, American Society of Landscape Architects

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Later this month Russell Sage Foundation president Sheldon Danziger and former visiting scholars Jane Waldfogel and Julian Zelizer will speak at Legacies of the Great Society: War, Poverty and Voting Rights, a two-day conference hosted by the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College to be held on March 24th and 25th, 2015.

Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson's wave of Great Society legislation gave historic momentum to greater economic and racial equality. Much of that progress is embedded in society today, and yet the income gap between the richest and poorest Americans is the largest since the Great Depression, racial tensions continue to polarize society, and gender equality remains a struggle. Panels of scholars, practitioners, experts and advocates will assess the impact of the Vietnam War, the effects of War on Poverty programs, and the consequences—then and now—of the Voting Rights Act.

Danziger, who co-edited the RSF book Legacies of the War on Poverty with Martha J. Bailey, will present the keynote speech titled “Fighting Racial Discrimination, Poverty and Disadvantage: From Then to Now” on Tuesday, March 24th. Former RSF visiting scholars Julian Zelizer and Jane Waldfogel, who is also co-author of the forthcoming RSF book Too Many Children Left Behind, will both participate in the panel discussion “How to Conquer Poverty and Inequality Today?” on Wednesday, March 25th.

The Russell Sage Foundation has launched several research collaborations with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Over the last year, seven projects have been co-funded with the Kellogg Foundation and nine projects have been co-funded with the MacArthur Foundation.

RSF president Sheldon Danziger remarked, “I am extremely pleased that the Russell Sage Foundation has been able to collaborate with the Kellogg Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation.” He added, “We receive many high-quality social science research proposals and these partnerships allow us to fund a greater number of projects than we could support with our own funds.”