Industrial condition abroad of members of immigrant households studied. Principal occupation of immigrant employees before coming to the United General occupation of women at the present time in the households studied. General occupation of males at the present time in the households studied. 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 PART III-THE 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-[Text Table 555 and General Table 312]. TERRITORY COVERED BY THE INVESTIGATION. The term "Middle West," for the purposes of this section of the study of immigrants in the iron and steel industry, is used to designate the territory north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi rivers and south of the Great Lakes, including the States of Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, and all of Ohio except the eastern part embraced in the study of the Pittsburg district. METHOD OF PRESENTING DATA. Households of immigrant iron and steel workers were studied and are presented along with other detailed material in connection with Community D, a representative iron and steel manufacturing community of the Middle West of recent growth, and in which immigrants from southern and eastern Europe have found employment in large numbers. Detailed information was also secured for more than 12,000 employees of blast furnaces and iron and steel establishments located in all parts of the Middle West, and the present section of the report sets forth in a summary way the salient facts as regards these iron and steel workers. The number for whom information was received is large enough to be considered representative, and the facts and tendencies exhibited by the succeeding tabulations are thought to be typical of conditions in the Middle West. 3 |