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Pittsburgh as a Foster Mother

A Concrete Community study of Child-caring Methods
Author
Florence L. Lattimore
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123 pages

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Originally published in The Pittsburgh District, a volume of the 1914 Pittsburgh Survey, this report is an in-depth study of children's institutions in Pittsburgh at the time. Housing accommodation standards, children's schedules, and education curriculum are discussed at length. Based on the social needs of children during the rise of industry in the city, this study presents a program for the conservation and rehabilitation of the homes of children, the requirement for thoughtfully selected foster homes, the adoption of standards of care in foster homes, and the enforcement of these standards.

FLROENCE L. LATTIMORE was associate director of Department of Child Hygiene of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Infant Mortality

Its Relation to Social and Industrial Conditions
Author
Henry H. Hibbs, Jr.
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Publication Date
127 pages

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This series of papers is the outcome of a house-to-house investigation of infant mortality in four wards of Boston made in 1910-11 and 1911-12 by the Research Department of the Boston School for Social Workers under a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation.

HENRY H. HIBBS, JR., Department of Research of the Boston School for Social Workers and the Department of Sociology of the University of Illinois

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Community Action Through Surveys

Author
Shelby M. Harrison
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Publication Date
34 pages

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Paper presented in part at the Indianapolis meeting of the National Conference of Charities and Correction in May 1916.

SHELBY M. HARRISON was director of the Department of Surveys and Exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Independence Day Legislation and Celebration Suggestions

Facts Gathered from Special Reports
Editor
Lee F. Hanmer
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Publication Date
32 pages

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Reports published by the foundation's Department of Recreation in 1913.

LEE F. HANMER was associate director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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The Campaign Against the Loan Shark

Author
Arthur H. Ham
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Publication Date
7 pages

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A pamphlet published by the Russell Sage Division of Remedial Loans in 1912.

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This feature is part of an ongoing RSF blog series, Work in Progress, which highlights some of the ongoing research of our current class of Visiting Scholars.

During his time in residence at the Russell Sage Foundation, Visiting Scholar Karl Jacoby (Columbia University) is completing a book that examines the changing race relations along the U.S.–Mexico border at the dawn of the twentieth century. Drawing on interviews, archival research, and the unique biographical details of one individual in particular, his book will analyze the distinct systems of racial classification found in the two countries despite their geographical proximity, and show how the border shapes race relations in both countries.

In a new interview with the Foundation, Jacoby discussed the growing field of “microhistory,” and detailed his current research on the elusive figure of Guillermo Eliseo (also known as William Ellis), an African American who was able to “pass” as an upper-class Mexican in the United States, and whose life’s story sheds critical insight on the racial regimes of both Mexico and the U.S. during the Gilded Age.

Q. Your current research fits into a practice that some have called “microhistory”. What is microhistory? How do we connect these highly detailed narratives to larger social issues of a given era?

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Measurements as Applied to School Hygiene

Author
Luther H. Gulick
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Publication Date
11 pages

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This pamphlet argues for definite measurements of results in the study of school hygiene and other areas in order to improve the school system. It was published by the Department of Child Hygiene of the Russell Sage Foundation in 1911.

LUTHER H. GULICK was director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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The Steel Workers

Author
John A. Fitch
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Publication Date
380 pages

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A look at the steel industry in Pittsburgh, this book is a volume of the Pittsburgh Survey, published in 1911. The Steel Workers deals with the work-relationships of the steel men, documenting their harsh working conditions and the union movement.

JOHN A. FITCH was a fellow at the University of Wisconsin and an expert at the New York State Department of Labor.

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The category “Asian American” currently encompasses more than forty-five Asian-origin groups, from countries ranging from Bangladesh to Vietnam to South Korea. How did one label come to include such a wide range of ethnicities, national origins, and languages, and represent individuals across vastly different social and economic standings? In Redefining Race, a new book from the Russell Sage Foundation, sociologist Dina G. Okamoto traces the complex evolution of “Asian American” as a cohesive identity, emphasizing how it has been a deliberate social achievement negotiated by group members, rather than an organic and inevitable process.

As Okamoto explains, a combination of broad social conditions in the post-Civil Rights era created an environment for Asian American panethnicity to develop. While the expansion of immigration policies in the 1960s allowed greater numbers of Asian immigrants into the U.S., these new immigrant groups were subsequently subject to racial discrimination by the state and larger society. At the same time, movements led by African Americans, women, and students provided Asian groups with models for political organizing and sparked the push for greater political representation among minorities. These conditions laid the groundwork for a collective identity among Asian immigrants of different ethnicities:

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The Cooperative People's Bank

La Caisse Populaire
Author
Alphonse Desjardins
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Publication Date
42 pages

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From the Preface of the book: "The growing interest in cooperative credit as a possible solution of the problem of financing the farmer and eliminating the evils of the small loan business in cities, intensified by the investigations of the American and United States Commissions abroad and the publication of the reports of their findings, prompts the Russell Sage Foundation, through its Division of Remedial Loans, to publish this brief statement of the operations of the Cooperative People's Bank of Canada, written by a Canadian who has been correctly termed "The founder of cooperative banking on the American continent."

ALPHONSE DESJARDINS was president and manager of La Caisse Populaire de Levis and general director of L’Action Populaire Economique.

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