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IMMIGRANTS IN INDUSTRIES.
DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRIES (IN TWO VOLUMES: VOL. I.).
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 I-GENERAL SURVEY OF EMPLOYEES ENGAGED IN DIVERSIFIED
CHAPTER I.-Introduction:
INDUSTRIES.
Explanation of study..
Extent of information..
Communities studied.
Households studied.
The preparation of the report.
CHAPTER II.-Racial composition of the operating forces at the present time:
Carpet manufacture...
Car building and repairing.
Cutlery and tools.
Electrical supplies.
Electric railways..
Zinc smelting and refining..
CHAPTER III.-Racial displacements:
Period of residence in the United States of foreign-born employees in the
manufacture of—
PART II.-REPRESENTATIVE COMMUNITIES ENGAGED IN DIVERSIFIED
MANUFACTURES.
REPRESENTATIVE COMMUNITY A.
Members of households for whom detailed information was secured...
CHAPTER II.-Racial displacements:
Period of residence in the United States of members of immigrant house-
holds studied....
Ability to speak English.
CHAPTER III.-Economic status:
Page.
75
Industrial condition abroad of members of immigrant households studied..
General occupation of males at the present time in the households studied.. 78
General occupation of women at the present time in the households studied. 79
Occupations of first and second generation compared..
Annual earnings of male heads of families studied.,
Annual earnings of males 18 years of age or over in the households studied. 84
Annual earnings of females 18 years of age or over in the households studied. 85
Annual family income..
Wives at work...
Relation between the earnings of husbands and the practice of wives in
keeping boarders or lodgers...
Sources of family income...
Relative importance of different sources of family income.
CHAPTER IV. Working conditions:
Regularity of employment...
The immigrant and organized labor.
CHAPTER V.-Housing and living conditions:
Rent in its relation to standard of living..
Boarders and lodgers..........
Size of apartments occupied
Size of households.
Ownership of homes...
Status of children in the households studied.
Citizenship....
97
100
102
104
105
109
111
113
115
116
117
Members of households for whom detailed information was secured..
Employees for whom information was secured.....
Period of residence in the United States of foreign-born employees and
members of their households.....
Industrial condition abroad of members of immigrant households studied.
General occupation of males at the present time in the households studied..
General occupation of women at the present time in the households studied.
Occupations of the second generation compared..
Occupations entered by immigrants....
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...
147
148
Wives at work....
149
Relation between the earnings of husbands and the practice of wives of
CHAPTER IV.-Working conditions-Continued.
Employment of immigrants because of peculiar training or skill.
158
Local prejudice...
CHAPTER V.-Industrial effects of immigration:
Criminality..
Immigrants in business..
Immigrants in the professions..
CHAPTER IX.-General progress and assimilation:
Ownership of homes.
Investments.....
182
183
CHAPTER VIII.-Immigrants in business and the professions:
187
189
191
192
Members of households for whom detailed information was secured.
231
Racial classification of employees at the present time...
234
Annual earnings of male heads of families studied..
237
240
242
244
Annual earnings of males 18 years of age or over in the households studied..
245
247
248
249
keeping boarders or lodgers..
250
Sources of family income..
251
Relative importance of the different sources of family income..
254
300
History of immigration..
303
holds studied...
308
Estimated population of Community D, in 1909, by race.
309
311
314
315
317
Annual family income....
319
320
321
Wives at work........
322
keeping boarders or lodgers.
323
330
CHAPTER V.—Industrial effects of immigration in Community D:
Effect of recent immigration upon old employees...
333
The employment of women.
334
The relation between the growth of the community and the immigrant
labor supply.....