This book, published in 1955, is a successor to Joanna C. Colcord's Your Community: Its Provision for Health, Education, Safety, and Welfare, published by the Russell Sage Foundation in 1939. It is designed as a broadly conceived working manual of community study aimed at not just social workers, like its predecessor, but a more varied group of citizens. It details procedures for conducting the survey, both in its organizational and methodological aspects.

ROLAND L. WARREN was professor of sociology at Alfred University.

This 1917 report on the conditions of the millinery industry, or the trade of making women's hats, functions as a general study of problems more or less common to all industries characterized by seasonal fluctuations in employment. Two separate but often overlapping inquiries were conducted to secure the data presented in this book, involving the study of wages, education, and the particular conditions surrounding a seasonal occupation.

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

A report of the findings of a study into the utilization of school property after day-class hours, carried out by the Department of Child Hygiene of the Russell Sage Foundation in 1910.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

Published in 1920, this paper attempts to explain why school officials and voluntary organizations were not pulling together to expand the school's use as a social center—uncertainty as to the people's will. It proposes that asking the community to decide what uses a social center should have will help in the creating of such an agency.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

A chapter of The Modern High School, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, this paper analyzes the expanding role of high schools as education centers, particularly as growing social centers for the community around them. It details how a school principal can adapt to this growing role and define the public education of the community.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

A paper delivered at the National Conference of Charities and Correction, in 1914.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

The first part of this pamphlet originally appeared in the April 1912 issue of the American School Board Journal, detailing a number of facilities to modern elementary school architecture that would also benefit the broader social community. Featured here are a number of plans that have been adopted in American cities that illustrate this.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

Address delivered in 1911, before the Principals' Association of Graded Schools.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

Published in 1912, this paper addresses what must be done to establish a social center in an existing school, particularly by developing community interest in such an endeavor and by appointing a proper director or leader with a set of demonstrated qualifications. Details are provided in how to organize the agency, as well as a number of legal obstacles that have to be overcome.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation