CHAPTER III.-Economic status-Continued.

Table 81.-Yearly earnings (approximate) of males 18 years of age or over,
by general nativity and race of individual. (Study of households)...
Table 82.-Yearly earnings (approximate) of females 18 years of age or
over, by general nativity and race of individual. (Study of households).
Table 83.-Amount of family income per year, by general nativity and
race of head of family. (Study of households)..

Table 84.-Number of families having an income within the year from
husband, wife, children, boarders or lodgers, and other sources, by gen-
eral nativity and race of head of family. (Study of households)..
Table 85.-Source of family income in detail, by general nativity and race
of head of family. (Study of households)

CHAPTER IV.-Working conditions:

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414

414

415

415

416

Table 86.-Months worked during the past year by persons 16 years of age or over employed away from home, by sex and by general nativity and race of individual. (Study of households)

416

CHAPTER V.-Housing and living conditions:

Table 87.-Number and class of households, by general nativity and race of head of household. (Study of households)

417

Table 88.-Number of households paying each specified rent per month per apartment, by general nativity and race of head of household. (Study of households)

Table 89.-Number of households paying each specified rent per month per room, by general nativity and race of head of household. (Study of households)..

Table 90.-Number of households paying each specified rent per month per person, by general nativity and race of head of household. (Study of households)

Table 91.-Number of households keeping boarders and lodgers and number of boarders and lodgers, by general nativity and race of head of household. (Study of households)

Table 92.-Number of persons per household in apartments of each specified size, by general nativity and race of head of household. (Study of households).

Table 93.-Number of households occupying apartments of each specified number of rooms, by general nativity and race of head of household. (Study of households)

Table 94.-Number of households of each specified number of persons, by general nativity and race of head of household. (Study of households). Table 95.-Number of households and number of persons in apartments of each specified number of rooms, by general nativity and race of head of household. (Study of households)

417

417

418

418

419

420

420

420

Table 96.-Persons per room, by general nativity and race of head of household. (Study of households)...

421

Table 97.-Persons per sleeping room, by general nativity and race of head of household. (Study of households).

421

Table 98.-Number of households regularly sleeping in all except each specified number of rooms, by general nativity and race of head of household. (Study of households).

421

CHAPTER VI.-Salient characteristics:

Table 99.-Literacy of employees, by sex and general nativity and race. (Study of employees)

Table 100.-Literacy of persons 10 years of age or over, by sex and general nativity and race of individual. (Study of households)

422, 423

Table 101.-Literacy of foreign-born persons 10 years of age or over, by sex, years in the United States, and race of individual. (Study of households).

424

424, 425

Table 102.-Literacy of foreign-born persons 10 years of age or over, by sex, age at time of coming to the United States, and race of individual. (Study of households).

Table 103.-Conjugal condition of employees, by sex, age groups, and general nativity and race. (Study of employees)..

425

426-429

430, 431

Table 104.-Conjugal condition, by sex, age groups, and general nativity
and race of individual. (Study of households)..
Table 105.-Location of wives of foreign-born employees, by race of hus-
band. (Study of employees).

432

CHAPTER VI.-Salient characteristics-Continued.

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433-435

Table 106.-Visits abroad made by foreign-born employees, by sex, years in the United States, and race. (Study of employees) Table 107.-Number of persons within each age group, by sex and general nativity and race of head of household. (Study of households).. Table 108-Number of employees of each age or within each age group, by sex and general nativity and race. (Study of employees).... CHAPTER VII.-General progress and assimilation:

436

436-438

Table 109-Number of families owning home, renting, boarding, lodging, etc., by general nativity and race of head of family. (Study of households).

439

439, 440

Table 110.-General occupation of persons under 16 years of age, by sex,
age groups, and general nativity and race of individual. (Study of house-
holds)
Table 111.-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 112-Present political condition of foreign-born males 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 of individual and length of residence.
(Study of households).

Table 113.-Ability to speak English of persons 6 years of age or over, by
sex and general nativity and race of individual. (Study of households)..
Table 114.-Ability to speak English of foreign-born persons 6 years of
age or over, by sex, age at time of coming to the United States, and race
of individual. (Study of households)...
Table 115.-Ability to speak English of foreign-born persons 6 years of
age or over, by sex, years in the United States, and race of individual.
(Study of households).

Table 116.-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 117.-Ability to speak English of foreign-born employees, by sex,
years in the United States, and race. (Study of employees)...

LIST OF CHARTS.

441

441

442

442

443

444

445

Number of employees for whom detailed information was secured, by sex and general nativity and race

17

Per cent of foreign-born male employees in the United States each specified number of years, by race....

28

Per cent of foreign-born female employees in the United States each specified number of years, by race

29

Number of employees of each general nativity for whom detailed information was secured, by sex

34

FURNITURE MANUFACTURING.

463

IMMIGRANTS IN INDUSTRIES.

FURNITURE 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.

Members of households for whom detailed information was secured.

469

Employees for whom information was secured..

471

CHAPTER II.—Racial displacements:

History of immigration...........

473

Racial composition of working force in 1900..

480

Period of residence in the United States of foreign-born employees and members of their households....

Racial classification of employees at the present time.
CHAPTER III.-Economic status:

Industrial condition abroad of members of immigrant households studied..
Principal occupation of immigrant employees before coming to the United
States...

General occupation of males at the present time in the households studied.
General occupation of women at the present time in the households studied.
Weekly earnings...

Relation between period of residence and earning ability.
Annual earnings of male heads of families studied..

Annual earnings of males 18 years of age or over in the households studied.
Annual earnings of females 18 years of age or over in the households studied.
Annual family income...

497

498

499

Wives at work....

500

Relation between the earnings of husbands and the practice of wives of keeping boarders or lodgers..

500

Sources of family income..

502

Age classification of employees and members of their households.
Charity, Grand Rapids, Mich...

General progress of immigrants in Grand Rapids, Mich.

539