ustrial condition abroad of members of immigrant households studied. cipal occupation of immigrant employees before coming to the United eral occupation of women at the present time in the households studied. eral occupation of males at the present time in the households studied. ation between the earnings of husbands and the practice of wives of IL-THE IRON AND STEEL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY IN THE MIDDLE WEST. GENERAL SURVEY. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. covered by the investigation-Method of presenting data-Employees for om information was secured [Text Table 555 and General Table 312]. TERRITORY COVERED BY THE INVESTIGATION. term "Middle West," for the purposes of this section of the f immigrants in the iron and steel industry, is used to desigterritory north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi rivers th of the Great Lakes, including the States of Indiana, Illinois, sin, Michigan, and all of Ohio except the eastern part emin the study of the Pittsburg district. METHOD OF PRESENTING DATA. eholds of immigrant iron and steel workers were studied and ented along with other detailed material in connection with nity D, a representative iron and steel manufacturing comof the Middle West of recent growth, and in which immigrants uthern and eastern Europe have found employment in large 5. Detailed information was also secured for more than mployees of blast furnaces and iron and steel establishments in all parts of the Middle West, and the present section of ort sets forth in a summary way the salient facts as regards on and steel workers. The number for whom information ived is large enough to be considered representative, and the d tendencies exhibited by the succeeding tabulations are to be typical of conditions in the Middle West. 3 |