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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...
Weekly earnings..
Relation between period of residence and earning ability.
CHAPTER IV.-Salient characteristics:
COMMUNITY E.
Industrial significance of the community....
Effects of industrial depression...
Households studied......
Members of households for whom detailed information was secured..
Period of residence in the United States of members of immigrant house-
holds studied...
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..
Annual earnings of males 18 years of age or over in the households studied.
Annual family income....
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..
Cost and manner of living of representative families and groups of men.
CHAPTER VII.-Salient characteristics:
Conjugal condition..
Use of intoxicants..
Religious indifference.
Money on arrival..
Literacy..
Visits abroad......
Age classification of members of households..
CHAPTER VIII.-Immigrant societies and institutions:
Tendency of immigrants to accept charity or become public charges...
Honesty.
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Mercantile houses..
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PART IV.-IRON AND STEEL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY IN THE SOUTH.
Period of residence in the United States of foreign-born employees.
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States..
Weekly earnings.
Literacy...
133
134
137
Conjugal condition
Visits abroad....
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141
Members of households for whom detailed information was secured.
154
Employees for whom information was secured....
158
Present immigrant population of the Birmingham district...
History of immigration to the Birmingham district...
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161
Period of residence in the United States of foreign-born employees and
members of their households....
164
Racial classification of employees at the present time..
166
Industrial condition abroad of members of immigrant households studied.
States.
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Annual family income..
177
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Wives at work..
179
keeping boarders or lodgers.
Age classification of employees and members of their households..
Criminality.
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