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CHAPTER V.-Housing and living conditions:
General housing and living conditions..
Rent in its relation to standard of living.
Boarders and lodgers....
Size of apartments occupied.
Size of households studied
Congestion.....
CHAPTER VI.-Salient characteristics:
Literacy...
Conjugal condition..
Visits abroad....
Criminality of recent immigrants..
Diseases of recent immigrants....
Age classification of employees and members of their households.
CHAPTER VII.-General progress and assimilation:
Americanization....
Immigrant churches.
Societies and fraternal orders..
107
Interest in political and civic affairs in Oklahoma and Kansas.
Citizenship in the Southwest....
115
118
Ability to speak English....
121
PART V. THE BITUMINOUS COAL MINING INDUSTRY IN THE SOUTH.
CHAPTER I.-Introduction:
Page.
Households studied...
129
Members of households for whom detailed information was secured.
Employees for whom information was secured......
130
132
CHAPTER II.-Racial displacements:
History of immigration to the bituminous coal mines of the South...
Period of residence in the United States of foreign-born employees and
Period of residence in the United States of foreign-born employees in
Alabama coal mines....
143
History of immigration to the coal fields of West Virginia.
144
Racial composition of mine-operating forces at the present time in West
Virginia..
161
Period of residence in the United States of foreign-born employees in the
West Virginia coal fields.....
162
History of immigration to the coal fields of Virginia..
164
CHAPTER III.-Economic status:
Industrial condition abroad of members of immigrant households studied.
Principal occupation of immigrant employees before coming to the United
States...
167
171
General occupation of women at the present time in the households studied.
General occupation of males at the present time in the households studied.
Occupations entered in the bituminous coal-mining industry.......
Daily earnings in the South...........
Monthly earnings in representative coal mines in southern West Virginia..
Relation between period of residence and earning ability..
182
183
Annual earnings of male heads of families studied..
185
Annual earnings of males 18 years of age or over in the households studied.
Annual family income...
187
188
Wives at work.
189
CHAPTER III.-Economic status-Continued.
Annual earnings of females 18 years of age or over in the households
studied
190
Relation between the earnings of husbands and the practice of wives of
keeping boarders or lodgers
Sources of family income...
191
Relative importance of the different sources of family income..
193
CHAPTER IV.-Working conditions:
CHAPTER V.-The demand for immigrant labor and the effects of its employ-
ment:
Reasons for employment of immigrants in Alabama coal mines.
215
Methods used to secure immigrant labor for Alabama mines..
Reasons for employment of immigrants in West Virginia..
219
Methods used to secure immigrant labor in West Virginia..
Reasons for employment of immigrants in Virginia coal fields..
220
221
Effect of employment of immigrants in Virginia and West Virginia coal
fields.
CHAPTER VI.-Industrial progress and efficiency of immigrant employees in
West Virginia:
General industrial progress..
225
Opinions of employers according to specified standards as to the progress
of immigrant mine workers..
Preferences of coal operators for different races of immigrant employees...
CHAPTER VII.-Housing and living conditions:
Age classification of employees and members of their households..
CHAPTER IX.-General progress and assimilation:
PART IV. THE BITUMINOUS COAL MINING INDUSTRY
IN THE SOUTHWEST.
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