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IMMIGRANTS IN INDUSTRIES.
IRON AND STEEL MANUFACTURING (IN TWO VOLUMES).
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.
IV
CONTENTS.
PART III-IRON AND STEEL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY IN THE
MIDDLE WEST.
GENERAL SURVEY.
CHAPTER I.-Introduction:
Territory covered by the investigation..
Method of presenting data.....
Employees for whom information was secured..
CHAPTER II.-Racial displacements:
History of immigration...
Period of residence in the United States of foreign-born employees..
Racial classification of employees at the present time...
CHAPTER III.-Economic status:
Principal occupation of immigrant employees before coming to the United
States....
Members of households for whom detailed information was secured..
The industrial depression and the exodus of 1909.
The Bulgarians at home..
Period of residence in the United States of members of immigrant house-
holds studied....
Methods of securing immigrants..
Destination of immigrants to the community.
Racial composition of the community...
Distribution of the population.....
Industrial condition abroad of members of immigrant households studied..
General occupation of women at the present time in the households studied.
General occupation of males at the present time in the households studied.
Comparison of occupations of recent immigrants with other occupations...
Annual earnings of male heads of families studied...
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Annual earnings of males 18 years of age or over in the households studied.
Annual family income..
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Wives at work..
Annual earnings of females 18 years of age or over in the households studied.
Relation between the earnings of husbands and the practice of wives of
keeping boarders or lodgers.
Sources of family income..
Relative importance of different sources of family income..
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Cost and manner of living of representative families and groups of men. .
CHAPTER VII.-Salient characteristics:
Tendency of immigrants to accept charity or become public charges..
Honesty.
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Use of intoxicants..
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Conjugal condition.
103
Visits abroad.....
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PART IV.-IRON AND STEEL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY IN THE SOUTH.
History of immigration..
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Period of residence in the United States of foreign-born employees.
128
Racial classification of employees at the present time..
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Page.
Employees for whom information was secured....
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Present immigrant population of the Birmingham district..
History of immigration to the Birmingham district...
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Period of residence in the United States of foreign-born employees and
members of their households..
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Relation between period of residence and earning ability
Annual earnings of male heads of families studied.
Industrial condition abroad of members of immigrant households studied.
States..
Weekly earnings..
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Age classification of employees and members of their households.
254
Criminality
256