AUGUST 1937 Agriculture Agricultural statistics, 1937. Washington, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1937. 486 pp. The statistics presented in this volume cover a wide range of topics, including rates and index numbers of wages, employment on highway construction, farm income, farm tenancy, population movements, cooperative societies, prices, and summary data from studies of farm family living. In some cases the figures cover a long period of years. The effect of the depression on tenancy in the Central States. By Dwight Sanderson. (In Rural Sociology, Baton Rouge, La., March 1937, pp. 3–9.) Farm tenancy in the United States. Washington, Chamber of Commerce of the United States, 1937. 42 pp., map. A description of the extent of farm tenancy and conditions affecting it; forms of tenancy; and the objections to and significance and problems of this form of operation. The Chamber urges careful selection of those who are to pass from tenancy to farm ownership, and a government-guaranteed loan system to aid those making the transition. Farmers without land. By Rupert B. Vance. New York, Public Affairs Committee, 8 West 40th Street, 1937. 31 pp., charts. (Public Affairs Pamphlet No. 12.) 172 pp., maps. A statement on the growth of tenancy and some of its effects. Eesti põllumajandus, 1936. Tallinn, Statistika Keskbüroo, 1937. Statistical yearbook of agriculture in Estonia, including data on wages, production, prices of products, and cooperative dairies, in 1936 and earlier years. Estonian, with French translations of table of contents, titles, and table heads. Child Labor Handbook on the Federal Child Labor Amendment. In New York, National Child Labor Committee, 419 Fourth Avenue, 1937. 63 pp. (Publication No. 368.) Civil Service Civil service testing for social work positions. By Lewis Meriam. Chicago, Civil Service Assembly of the United States and Canada, 850 East 58th Street, 1937. 6 pp. (Pamphlet No. 9.) A discussion of the new problems in civil-service recruiting presented by the public administration of social service, under which positions that involve case work and other types of personal relationship are filled through civil-service examination. The pamphlet is a condensation of a paper given before the National Conference of Social Work in 1936. Government careers for college graduates: An experiment in the selection of Federal employees from liberal arts colleges. By Leonard D. White. Chicago, Civil Service Assembly of the United States and Canada, 850 East 58th Street, 1937. 20 pp. (Pamphlet No. 8.) A report upon the results of a Federal civil-service examination of college and university graduates who had no specialized occupational training, from which a "general utility" employment list was compiled. Personnel administration in the Federal Service. By Floyd W. Reeves and Paul T. David. Washington, President's Committee on Administrative Management, 1937. 75 pp. (Studies on Administrative Management in the Government of the United States, No. 1.) Cooperative Movement Consumers' cooperative adventures-case studies. By Harlan J. Randall and Clay J. Daggett. Whitewater, Wis., Whitewater Press, 1936. 646 pp., charts, illus. History, development, method of operation, administration and management, and statistics of selected cooperative stores, oil associations, burial associations, a hospital, credit unions, insurance associations, etc. Intended for classroom use. Consumers' cooperative statutes and decisions, to January 1, 1937. Washington, U. S. Department of Labor, Consumers' Project, 1937. 219 pp. A compilation of the statutory provisions made by the State legislatures for the incorporation of consumers' cooperative associations, with summaries of judicial decisions interpreting these laws. What is consumers' cooperation? Credit unions-a story of cooperative credit; Clarks Grove-the story of a cooperative community; The cooperative movement in Sweden, Italy, and Russia; Cooperation, a world movement. St. Paul, Minn., State Department of Education, Educational Materials Project, 1936. Cooperation, Units I-V (5 pamphlets); various paging, charts, illus. (Social Science Series, No. 2.) A series intended for use in adult-education programs. Credit unions. By Frank O'Hara. New York, Paulist Press, 1937. 24 pp. (National Catholic Welfare Conference, Social Action Series No. 7.) Cost and Standards of Living The human needs of labor. By B. Seebohm Rowntree. London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1937. 162 pp. A detailed statement on family needs of food, clothing, fuel, housing, and sundries, and estimates of the income required to insure a minimum standard of living. Husholdningsregnskaber, 1931. Copenhagen, Statistiske Departement, 1936. 275 pp. (Statistiske Meddelelser, 4.række, 100.bind, 1.hæfte.) Report of a study of family budgets in Denmark in 1931, showing incomes and itemized expenditures. In Danish, with French translations of table of contents and headings; French terms of various items of expense are also appended. Economic and Social Problems Employee savings programs-an analysis of recent trends. By Helen Baker. Princeton, N. J., Princeton University, Industrial Relations Section, 1937. 44 pp.; bibliography. Reviewed in this issue. Location theory and the shoe and leather industries. By Edgar M. Hoover, Jr. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1937. 323 pp., charts. (Harvard Economic Studies, Vol. LV.) Extensive historical information is used for analyzing the factors affecting changes in the location of industry. The study considers labor-cost differentials, historical aspects of labor, and labor organizations, in the leather and shoe industries; and social welfare as the basis of public intervention and public policy in connection with shifts in location. Political and economic democracy. Edited by Max Ascoli and Fritz Lehmann. New York, W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1937. 336 pp. Papers by former members of European university faculties who are members of the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science of the New School for Social Research (New York), in which they seek "to translate American experience into European terms and European experience into American terms to the end that the essential conditions of our common modern civilization may be better understood." Papers dealing explicitly with labor in relation to the problems of democracy are: The trade-union approach to economic democracy; Democratic freedom and the organization of labor; The regulation of labor conflicts. Prosperity and depression: A theoretical analysis of cyclical movements. By Gottfried von Haberler. Geneva, League of Nations, Economic Intelligence Service, 1937. 363 pp. The much disputed question of the effects of wage policies is discussed at some length. The author concludes that in "our present individualistic money-price economy" (with which alone his analysis is concerned) a continued fall in money wages during a period of depression and unemployment will tend to stop contraction and restore employment. He holds that if a depression or economic contraction is subject to international conditions, both wages and prices must be allowed to fall before contraction can be checked. Caste and class in a southern town. By John Dollard. New Haven, Yale University Press (for Institute of Human Relations), 1937. 502 pp. A scientific appraisal of the social and emotional life of the people of a very small southern community, and especially of the attitudes of the white and colored races toward each other. Family migratoriness and child behavior. Based upon a study of a group of California schools. By Allen W. and Walter G. Beach. (In Sociology and Social Research, Los Angeles, July-August 1937, pp. 503-523; charts.) Survey of the blind in the State of Washington. [Olympia?], State Department of Social Security, Division for the Blind, and Junior Federation of Women's Clubs, 1937. 26 pp.; mimeographed. Contains data on number, geographic distribution, degree of blindness, length of residence, means of support, and present occupations of the blind, obtained in a State-wide census. Mui tsai in Hong Kong and Malaya. (Colonial No. 125.) London, Colonial Office, 1937. 314 pp. Report, with conclusions and recommendations, of the British commission appointed "to investigate the whole question of mui tsai in Hong Kong and Malaya and of any surviving practices in those territories of transferring women and children for valuable consideration." The mui tsai system is generally understood to mean the transfer of a girl from her own to another family, for money or other valuable consideration, to a status of domestic servitude without regular wages, the girl, however, being regarded as a member of the family to which she is transferred. Education and Guidance Annual convention, American Council of Guidance and Personnel Associations, New Orleans [February 1937]. (In Occupations, the Vocational Guidance Magazine, 551 Fifth Avenue, New York, May 1937, pp. 689-780.) Guidance and placement for America's youth. By Homer P. Rainey. (In Occupations, the Vocational Guidance Magazine, 551 Fifth Avenue, New York, June 1937, pp. 838-844.) Describes several important types of guidance and placement programs now in operation, recommends a 4-point program, and emphasizes the need for further study. Employment and Unemployment International index numbers of employment. (In International Labor Review, Geneva, Switzerland, May 1937, pp. 724-733; charts.) In this article the International Labor Office publishes for the first time its international employment index_numbers. With a few exceptions, the indexes are based on official statistics. They are of three distinct kinds, each providing a different measure of employment-number in employment, degree of employ ment, aggregate hours worked- and are presented in both tabular and graphic form, preceded by brief descriptions of the indexes and methods of construction. A more detailed discussion of the indexes is contained in another article in this issue of the International Labor Review, on "Some problems of international employment statistics." Some problems of international employment statistics. By John Lindberg. (In International Labor Review, Geneva, Switzerland, May 1937, pp. 608–642; chart.) Planning of public works in relation to employment. Geneva, International Labor Office, 1937. 273 pp. (Third item on agenda of International Labor Conference, Twenty-third Session, Geneva, 1937.) Reviewed in this issue. Employment Service Washington, U. S. A field visiting program for the public employment service. Family Allowances Paris, 155 pp. XVI Congrès national des allocations familiales, Strasbourg, 20 Mai 1936. Comité Central des Allocations Familiales, 31 rue Guyot, [1936?]. Proceedings of the sixteenth annual national congress on family allowances in France, held at Strasbourg on May 20, 1936. A résumé of this conference was published in the September 1936 issue of the Monthly Labor Review; statistics and other information presented to the 1937 Congress are published in this issue of the Monthly Labor Review. Health and Industrial Hygiene Control of chromic acid mists from plating tanks. (Reprint By Edward C. Riley and F. H. 3 pp. The study showed that for the standard type of plating tank a cross-draft local-exhaust system will keep the concentration of chromic-acid vapor in the air within safe limits. The air velocities essential for adequate control are indicated in the report. The pneumonokonioses (silicosis): Book III-literature and laws. By George G. Davis, Ella M. Salmonsen, and Joseph L. Early wine. Chicago, Chicago Medical Press, 1937. 1033 pp.; bibliography and medical index. The first section of the volume consists of abstracts, extracts, and reviews of international literature relating to silicosis, and the second part, of a synopsis of laws in the United States and foreign countries. Report of the Assembly Interim Committee on Investigation of Health and Health Insurance in the State of California. Sacramento, 1937. 10 pp. The Committee, as a result of replies to a questionnaire on health insurance, and following public hearings on the question, recommended that a committee representing the medical profession, labor, industry, fraternal groups, and others, be appointed by the legislature to study the health problem and health services in California. Evaluation of the industrial hygiene problems of a State [Maryland]. By J. J. Bloomfield and Mary F. Peyton. Washington, U. S. Public Health Service, 1937. 126 pp., charts. (Public Health Bulletin No. 236.) The study covered the occupational hazards in the different industries of Maryland. The report shows the extent of the health facilities and care provided, and the number of employees exposed to the different hazards. Appendixes contain specific instructions for carrying out plant surveys; a summary of the cost of basic equipment, and a list of items, for an industrial laboratory; and a list of periodicals and books essential for a reference library. Public medical services: A survey of tax-supported medical care in the United States. By Michael M. Davis. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1937. 170 pp., bibliography. A review of public medical care in this country, which includes services provided for dependent and nondependent persons in their homes, in hospitals, and in |