PART III-THE BOOT AND SHOE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY IN THE MIDDLE WEST. CHAPTER I.-Introduction: Page. Table 160.-Total number of employees for whom information was secured, by sex and general nativity and race. (Study of employees).................. 724, 725 CHAPTER II.-Racial displacements: Table 161.-Number of foreign-born employees in the United States each specified number of years, by sex and race. (Study of employees)...... 725,726 CHAPTER III.-Economic status: Table 162.-Number of male employees, 18 years of age or over earning each specified amount per week, by general nativity and race. (Study of employees).... Table 163.-Number of female employees, 18 years of age or over earning each specified amount per week, by general nativity and race. (Study of employees).... Table 164.-Number of male employees, 14 and under 18 years of age earning each specified amount per week, by general nativity and race. (Study of employees).. 727,728 728,729 729,730 Table 165.-Number of female employees, 14 and under 18 years of age earning each specified amount per week, by general nativity and race. (Study of employees).. 730 CHAPTER IV.-Salient characteristics: Table 166.-Literacy of employees, by sex and general nativity and race. (Study of employees). 731-733 Table 167.-Conjugal condition of employees, by sex, age groups, and general nativity and race. (Study of employees).. 724-739 Table 168.-Location of wives of foreign-born employees, by race of husbands. (Study of employees)... 740 741-743 Table 169.-Visits abroad made by foreign-born employees, by sex, years in the United States, and race. (Study of employees)... Table 170.-Number of employees of each age or within each age group, by sex and general nativity and race. (Study of employees)....... CHAPTER V.-General progress and assimilation: 744-747 Table 171.-Present political condition of foreign-born male employees who have been in the United States 5 years or over and who were 21 years of age or over at time of coming, by race and length of residence. (Study of employees). Table 172.-Ability to speak English of foreign-born employees, by sex, age at time of coming to the United States, and race. (Study of employees)... Table 173.-Ability to speak English of foreign-born employees, by sex, years in the United States, and race. (Study of employees)... 747 748,749 750, 751 LIST OF CHARTS. Page. Number of employees for whom information was secured, by general nativity and race.. Number of employees of each general nativity for whom information was secured. 218 219 Per cent of foreign-born employees in the United States each specified number of years, by race.. 230 IMMIGRANTS IN INDUSTRIES. GLOVE MANUFACTURING. This report, which was prepared under the direction of the Commission by W. Jett Lauck, superintendent of agents, forms part of the general report of the Immigration Commission on immigrants in industries. 774 Members of households for whom detailed information was secured. 779 Employees for whom information was secured... 781 CHAPTER II.-Racial displacements: History of immigration.... 783 Period of residence in the United States of foreign-born employees and members of their households..... 785 Racial classification of employees at the present time.. CHAPTER III.-Economic status: 787 Industrial condition abroad of members of immigrant households studied.. 789 792 793 793 Annual earnings of male heads of families studied. 795 Annual earnings of males 18 years of age or over in the households studied.. 797 797 799 Wives at work.... 800 Relation between the earnings of husbands and the practice of wives of keeping boarders or lodgers 800 Sources of family income....... 802 Relative importance of the different sources of family income. Age classification of employees and members of their households.. |