Migration and Social Welfare, published in 1940, identifies the more pressing problems faced by migrants in the United States, including the sources and causes of migration and the social effects of inadequate welfare provision. It was written on special commission from the Social Work Year Book Department. Topics include employment, housing, health, and education of migrants. It proposes a national immigration policy and includes a bibliography on interstate migration.

Philip E. Ryan was executive secretary of the Council on Interstate Migration.

Based on field studies of the 1929 administration of marriage laws in 96 in 30 states of the United States, Marriage and the State is an account of the marriage laws in existence at the time. The historical background of marriage law and social importance of the topics are also considered.

Mary E. Richmond was the author of Social Diagnosis and What Is Social Case Work? She was the director of the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation. Fred S. Hall was joint author of American Marriage Laws.

This manual was prepared as a companion to Marriage and the State by Mary E. Richmond and Fred S. Hall. Marriage and the State is an account, based on field studies in 96 cities in 30 states, of the marriage laws in existence in 1929. This volume combines all the statutory regulations of marriage, and all the pertinent court decisions relating to marriage in each jurisdiction of the continental United States at the time. It contains 50 outlines of the law of the several states, the law of the District of Columbia, and the federal law. The statute law includes all legislation in force at the end of the 1927 legislative sessions; the decisional law, all printed cases up to January, 1927.

Geoffrey May was a staff member of the Russell Sage Foundation and served on the faculties of the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Chicago.

Part of the Industrial Relations Series, a series by the Department of Industrial Studies of the Russell Sage Foundation investigating early twentieth-century experiments in the organization of relations between employers and employees in industrial enterprises in the United States. A case study of the administration of agreements between miners’ and operators’ organizations in the bituminous coal mines of Illinois.

Louis Bloch was statistician of the Department of Industrial Relations of California and a staff member of the Russell Sage Foundation.

A 1966 review of major problems, issues, and developments in the field of juvenile delinquency in the United States. It was written at the request of John W. Gardner, Secretary of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, to provide a review of the field of delinquency which might be useful to the department in its planning. With the assistance of Anne Romasco.

The work which this book describes had its beginning in the year 1949 when the Russell Sage Foundation and the Jewish Board of Guardians entered into an agreement to conduct a joint project to explore whether cooperation between social scientists and clinicians in child guidance practice could prove to be of mutual benefit. Specifically, it aimed to investigate the contribution potential of the existing funds of social science knowledge to child guidance practice, as well as the research needs encountered by child guidance workers which could be met by social scientists.

Otto Pollack, Child Guidance Institute of the Jewish Board of Guardians

This book, published in 1944, presents recommendations for the development of adequate standards for child welfare institutions. It examines the history of such institutions, from asylums and orphanages. Topics include foster family care, community resources for meeting the needs of children, qualifications and earnings for staff, physical needs and education and training, costs of institutional care, and structural recommendations for buildings, including sample plans.

Howard W. Hopkirk was executive director of the Child Welfare League of America.

From the foreword by Fedele F. Fauri, then dean of the University of Michigan School of Social Work: “In the field of social welfare it is often urged that in-service training and reduced workloads are available and effective means of improving service. Such proposals are in keeping with other efforts to raise standards in the public assistance programs. Little evidence from research is available, however, to test the arguments on the subject. This monograph contributes a careful evaluation of experiments with these measures. The study was conducted in the Michigan State Department of Social Welfare and concerned cases carried in the Aid to Dependent Children Program.”

Edwin J. Thomas was associate professor of social work and of psychology at the University of Michigan. Donna L. McLeod was research associate at the University of Michigan. Pauline Bushey was assistant professor of social work at the University of Michigan. Lydia F. Hylton was research assistant at the University of Michigan. In collaboration with Pauline Bushey and Lydio F. Hylton.

This book examines the adoption process in the United States, asking whether the process provides sufficient protection for children. It deals specifically with independent adoptions—that is, outside of social agencies, through a process in which would-be adoptive parents secure the children either directly from their natural parents or relatives, or through intermediaries such as physicians or lawyers who know of the natural parents’ interest in giving up their children. It details a follow-up investigation with families made during 1956 and 1957 around the time the adopted children were about ten years old.

A study of unemployment in New Haven published in 1932. Contrasts by sex, marital status, age, industry, and occupation are analyzed, among others.

Margaret H. Hogg, Department of Statistics, Russell Sage Foundation