Index Numbers of Cost of Living for Specified Periods for the United States and Certain Foreign Countries

Index Numbers of Cost of Living for Specified Periods for the United States and Certain Foreign Countries-Continued

Index Numbers of Cost of Living for Specified Periods for the United States and Certain Foreign Countries-Continued

RECENT PUBLICATIONS OF

LABOR INTEREST

November 1936

Child welfare legislation, 1935.

79 pp., mimeographed.

Child Labor

Washington, U. S. Children's Bureau, 1936

Digest of the Federal and State statutes enacted during 1935 which deal with children. Child labor and compulsory school-attendance laws are among the items discussed.

Cooperative Movement

Cooperative buying clubs their advantages and their weaknesses, with some suggestions and advice. By A. W. Warinner. Chicago, Central States Cooperative League, 3954 West 27th St., 1935. 8 pp., mimeographed. (Educational and Information Service, No. 1.)

Cooperative consumer credit, with special reference to credit unions. By M. R. Neifeld. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1936. 223 pp.

A critical examination of credit unions from the standpoint of their business methods, their place in the field of consumer credit, etc. Contains a 27-point program for credit unions.

Cooperative insurance. By N. Barou. London, P. S. King & Son, Ltd., 1936. 391 pp.

An analysis of the nature, elements, and shortcomings of popular insurance, and a discussion of insurance on the cooperative basis. Contains chapters on cooperstive insurance by consumers' cooperative societies, labor organizations, agricultural cooperative associations, and employees' organizations.

Cooperative medicine: The cooperative organization of health protection. By James Peter Warbasse, M. D. New York, Cooperative League, 167 West 12th St, 1936. 24 pp., illus.

Agricultural financing through the Farm Credit Administration.

Washington,

U. S. Farm Credit Administration, 1936. 31 pp., charts. (Circular No. 5, revised September 1936.)

Includes sections on central and district banks for cooperatives. Agricultural cooperation in Finland. Helsinki, Pellervo-Seura, 1936. map, illus.

Cost of Living

38 pp.

The working man's tax bill-a research study of three thrifty New England families Providence, 1936. 56 pp. (Reprint from Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin.)

The expenditures of three families in a year are made the basis for computing the percentage of total expenditures absorbed by taxation. Both direct and indirect taxes are included.

Economic and Social Problems

Twenty thousand homeless men: A study of unemployed men in the Chicago shelters. By Edwin H. Sutherland and Harvey J. Locke. Chicago, J. B. Lippincott Co., 1936. 207 pp.

A study authorized by the Illinois Emergency Relief Commission early in 1934. The shelters are reported on as of the spring of 1935 when the field work came to a close. Reasons why men enter the shelters, types of homeless men, roads to dependency, activities of shelter men, and the process of shelterization, are among the subjects treated.

Twenty thousand transients: A one year's sample of those who apply for aid in a northern city. By Herman J. P. Schubert. Buffalo, Emergency Relief Bureau, 1935. 150 pp.

The classes of transients studied in this survey included unattached males, landsmen and seamen being grouped separately; unattached women; and families. Information is given on age distribution, place of origin, health, education, causes and length of transiency, method of travel, occupational fields, duration of unemployment, and social background.

Proceedings of National Conference of Jewish Social Service, Atlantic City, N. J., May 30-June 2, 1936. New York, National Conference of Jewish Social Welfare, 1936. 256 pp. (In Jewish Social Service Quarterly, September 1936.)

Some of the subjects of the general sessions of the meeting were: Problems of Jewish social work, aspects of American-Jewish youth problems, care of the aged, employment practices and relationships, and Jewish vocational service agencies. Sacramento depression settlement survey, 1935. [San Francisco, Coordinator of Statistical Projects, Works Progress Administration?], 1936. Various paging, charts; mimeographed.

A description of living conditions in the depression settlements that sprang up in Sacramento, Calif., where unemployed people of different races have been eking out an existence without organized aid. The survey was conducted by the questionnaire method, and data have been compiled to show the economic and social status of these groups.

A bibliography of studies of social conditions in the Pittsburgh area, 1930-35. Pittsburgh, Federation of Social Agencies of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County, Bureau of Social Research, 1936. 111 pp.

Covers a comprehensive list of topics, among them being child labor, cost and standard of living, employment and unemployment, housing, leisure-time activities, occupations, relief, and workmen's compensation.

A study of industrial Edinburgh and the surrounding area, 1923-34. By Nora Milnes. Vol. 1. London, P. S. King & Son, Ltd., 1936. 270 pp., charts. This study is an attempt to assess the effects of economic depression upon an area not primarily industrial which, while less severely dislocated than the principal industrial centers, did not escape "the scourge of the world industrial depression." The basic data used were census reports, information compiled by the Ministry of Labor, and first-hand inquiries among employers, trade-union officials, and local governmental authorities and social services. General conditions are treated in part 1. Part 2 presents more detailed analyses of specific industries, giving, for some of them, employment statistics, wage rates, and extent of tradeunion organization.

South Wales_needs a plan. By H. A. Marquand. London, George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1936. 256 pp.

A popular revision, intended primarily for discussion groups and study circles, of the author's official report on an industrial survey of South Wales made in 1931. After reviewing economic and industrial conditions in South Wales before and during the depression, plans for rehabilitation of the depressed area of South Wales are discussed. The first, called a "blue plan", analyzes the probable effect of the existing Government program upon unemployment and inadequate earning and purchasing power. The second, or "pink plan", calls for a radical change in the control of the great basic industries of the area, based primarily on Government ownership of coal and organized planning to create new industries.