This 1910 paper explains the importance of rest, particularly socializing outdoor rest and recreation, as a key to exercise. Rest is the solution to bridging the gap between knowing how to be healthy to actually being healthy. Exercise and Rest also explores the effect of recreation on mental health and sanity.
LUTHER H. GULICK was director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.
Five articles relating to safety of Independence Day celebrations:
The New and More Glorious Fourth by Luther H. Gulick
An American Holiday by William Orr
A Fourth of July Without Fireworks from Ladies' Home Journal
How One Town Spends the Fourth by Inez J. Gardner
Celebrating the Fourth in Large Cities by Lee F. Hanmer
LUTHER H. GULICK was director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.
WILLIAM ORR was principal of Central High School, Springfield, Massachusetts.
INEZ J. GARDNER, Ladies’ Home Journal
LEE F. HANMER was associate director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.
Two papers on issues of women in prison and awaiting trial, presented at the fifty-first congress of the American Prison Association in 1922.
MARTHA P. FALCONER, American Social Hygiene Association, New York
MAUDE E. MINER, secretary, New York Probation and Protective Association, New York City
Broken Homes attempts to analyze the causal factors that lead husbands and fathers to desert their families. It asks why men desert their wives and children and what steps can be taken for both preventative and corrective treatment. Published in 1919, this book is a careful examination of relationships and the motives behind marriage, detailing the history of desertion laws and providing additional strategies for social workers in assisting deserted families.
JOANNA C. COLCORD was superintendent of the Charity Organization Society of the City of New York.
A 1913 survey of the status of hospital social work, Social Work in Hospitals is born of the evident need for exchange of experience among hospitals around the country, as well as a desire for a more conscious and consistent effort to establish standards for social work in hospitals. Topics reported include the mentally unbalanced, employment for the handicapped, single mothers, organization of social workers, and the future of hospital social service.
IDA M. CANNON was head worker of the Social Service Department at Massachusetts General Hospital.
This paper, reprinted from the Eleventh Annual Report of the City Superintendent of Schools, New York City, 1909, by the Department of Child Hygiene of the Russell Sage Foundation, attempted to examine any possible relations between physical disability and school progress in children.
LEONARD P. AYRES was director of the Division of Education at the Russell Sage Foundation.
Presented at the Fifty-first congress of the American Prison Association in 1922.
J. F. WRIGHT was Executive Secretary of the Pathfinders of America, Detroit chapter.
This feature is part of an ongoing RSF blog series, Work in Progress, which highlights some of the research of our current class of Visiting Scholars.
Drawing from ten years of ethnographic research, Visiting Scholar Susan Silbey (MIT) is writing a book that examines the growing tensions between federal law and laboratory science. She is investigating the ways in which federal lab regulations and audits, often implemented in the name of safety, are perceived to threaten the autonomy of scientific practice within both the academy and other specialized industries.
In a new interview with the Foundation, Silbey discussed the factors that have given rise to breaches of regulatory compliance in academic and laboratory settings, including industry-specific hierarchies of labor, as well as larger cultural shifts in attitudes about workplace governance.
Q. In your research you have examined the 2009 UCLA laboratory tragedy that sparked the first criminal prosecution over an accident in an academic lab. What does this event, and others like it, reveal about the difficulties of ensuring regulatory compliance in academic lab settings?
This pamphlet is a 1931 reprint of the introduction to A Bibliography of Social Surveys, serving as a presentation of the survey movement at the time. It includes a short historical retrospect, an attempt at a definition of the survey and its purpose, and a brief analysis of trends in surveys since 1907, the year in which the Pittsburgh Survey was begun.
SHELBY M. HARRISON was director of the Department of Surveys and Exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation.
Published in 1924, this book is a compiled reading list of reference works that relate to publicity methods in social work. Most do not directly reference social work publicity, but are useful in promoting in the social, religious, or educational fields in one way or another.
EVART G. ROUTZAHN was associate director of the Department of Surveys and Exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation.
MARY SWAIN ROUTZAHN was director of the Department of Social Work Interpretation at the Russell Sage Foundation.
