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617 Seiten.
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Miscellaneous publication / United States Department of Agriculture 223
Content:
For sometime the Social Science Research Council has been concerned with the research needs and possibilities in the related fields of consumption and leisure. These fields offer an unusual opportunity for cooperative scientific effort because of the very comprehensiveness of their problems. The council's first investigations in these fields were initiated by Wesley C. Mitchell. In the spring of 1931 an interim committee on consumption and leisure was appointed under the chairmanship of the present writer.2 Very early in the committee's work it became apparent that an intelligent appraisal of the research needs in this area of investigation must begin by ascertaining what has already been discovered concerning consumption through the many studies of family living made in the United States and in other countries. Such a survey and appraisal of existing information had been started by the United States Bureau of Home Economics at the request of the first Pan-Pacific Women's Conference, held in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1928. At that conference a discussion of studies of standards of living indicated that in many different countries there were agencies concerned with problems of family living, and it seemed apparent that there was a need to find out what studies had been made and what they involved.3 The conference appointed an international committee with Louise Stanley, of the United States Bureau of Home Economics, as chairman, to collect precise information on what had been done, what was in course of investigation at that time, and what might be done in the near future in the fields of standards of living and dietary studies. A preliminary report on studies made in the United States had been prepared by the Bureau of Home Economics, under the direction of Faith M. Williams, for use at the second Pan-Pacific Women's Conference in 1930, and a full report on investigations in this country was under way at the Bureau.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Familienleben
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