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COMMITTEE FINDINGS 1929-1932

Scope and Contents note

Publisher's announcement, and typescript and mimeographed copies of twenty-six of the twenty-nine surveys put out by the committee and eventually published in the two-volume set entitled Recent Social Trends in the United States, 1933, New York (chapters 3, 6, and 15 are missing)
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Publisher's announcement. Printed copy

 

Surveys. Typescript and mimeographed copies

 

Vol. 1

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Chapter 1: The Population of the Nation, by Warren S. Thompson, director, Scripps Foundation for Research in Population Problems, and P. K. Whelpton

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Chapter 2: Utilization of Natural Wealth (Part 1: Mineral and Power Resources, by F. G. Tryon, economist, U.S. Bureau of Mines and Brookings Institution, and Margaret H. Schoenfield, associate editor, Monthly Labor Review, former member of the staff of Industrial Research Department, Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, University of Pennsylvania; Part 2: Agricultural and Forest Land, by O. E. Baker, agricultural economist, United States Department of Agriculture)

 

Chapter 3: The Influence of Invention and Discovery (missing)

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Chapter 4: The Agencies of Communication, by Malcolm M. Willey, professor of sociology, University of Minnesota, and Stuart A. Rice, professor of sociology and chairman of the Department of Economic and Social Statistics, University of Pennsylvania

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Chapter 5: Trends in Economic Organization, by Edwin F. Gay, professor of economic history at Harvard University and director of research of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Leo Walman, professor of economics, Columbia University

 

Chapter 6: Shifting Occupational Patterns (missing)

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Chapter 7: Education, by Charles H. Judd, professor and head of the Department of Education and director of the School of Education, University of Chicago

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Chapter 8: Changing Social Attitudes and Interests, by Hornell Hart, professor of social economy, Bryn Mawr College

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Chapter 9: The Rise of Metropolitan Communities, by R. D. McKenzie, professor and head of the Department of Sociology, University of Michigan

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Chapter 10: Rural Life, by J. H. Kolb, professor and chairman of the Department of Rural Sociology in the College of Agriculture, University of Wisconsin, and Edmund de S. Brunner, research specialist, Institute of Social and Religious Research, and associate professor in rural education, Teachers College, Columbia University

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Chapter 11: The Status of Racial and Ethnic Groups, by T. J. Woofter, Jr., research professor of sociology, Institute for Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina

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Chapter 12: The Vitality of the American People, by Edgar Sydenstricker, chief statistician, United States Public Health Service, and director of research, Milbank Memorial Fund

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Chapter 13: The Family and Its Functions, by W. F. Ogburn, with the assistance of Clark Tibbits

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Chapter 14: The Activities of Women Outside the Home, by S. P. Breckinridge, Samuel Deutsch Professor of Public Welfare, University of Chicago

 

Volume II

 

Chapter 15: Childhood and Youth (missing)

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Chapter 16: Labor Groups in the Social Structure, by Leo Wolman and Gustav Peck, member of the faculty of economics, College of the City of New York

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Chapter 17: The People and Consumers, by Robert S. Lynd, professor of sociology, Columbia University, with the assistance of Allice C. Hanson

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Chapter 18: Recreation and Leisure Time Activities, by J. F. Steiner, professor of sociology, University of Washington

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Chapter 19: The Arts in Social Life, by Frederick P. Keppel, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Chapter 20: Changes in Religious Organizations, y C. Luther Fry, director of the Bureau of Standards for the Institute of Social and Religious Research

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Chapter 21: Health and Medical Practice, by Harry H. Moore, director of the Study of the Committee on the Cost of Medical Care

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Chapter 22: Crime and Punishment, by Adwin H. Sutherland, professor of sociology, University of Chicago, and C. E. Gehlke, professor of sociology, Western Research University

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Chapter 23: Privately Supported Social Work, by Sydnor H. Walker, assistant director of the Social Sciences of the Rockefeller Foundation

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Chapter 24: Public Welfare Activities, by Howard W. Odum

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Chapter 25: The Growth of Governmental Functions, by Carrol H. Wooddy, assistant professor of political science, University of Chicago

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Chapter 26: Taxation and Public Finance, by Clarence Heer, University of North Carolina

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Chapter 27: Public Administration, by Leonard D. White, associate professor of political science, University of Chicago

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Chapter 28: Law and legal Institutions, by Charles E. Clark, dean and Sterling Professor of Law, Yale University, and William O. Douglas, associate professor of law, Yale University

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Chapter 29: Government and Society, by C. E. Merriam, professor and chairman of department of political science, University of Chicago

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Appendix: Improvement in Statistics of Social Trends, by Stuart A. Rice. Mimeograph copy