IRON ORE MINING. CONTENTS. PART I.-GENERAL SURVEY OF THE IRON ORE MINING INDUSTRY. CHAPTER I.-Introduction: Members of households for whom detailed information was secured. Development of the industry..... Households studied............... Preparation of the data..... CHAPTER II-Racial displacements: Employees for whom information was secured.. Period of residence in the United States of foreign-born employees and members of their households............... Racial classification of employees at the present time Industrial condition abroad of members of immigrant households studied.. States... General occupation of males at the present time in the households studied. 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.. Relation between the earnings of husbands and the practice of wives of Annual family income... 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 studied. CHAPTER VI.-Salient characteristics: Literacy. Conjugal condition. Visits abroad.. Age classification of employees and members of their households. CHAPTER VII-General progress and assimilation: Ownership of homes... Status of children in the households studied. Citizenship...... Ability to speak English... Page. 205 207 207 209 209 213 218 223 227 228 229 230 233 236 238 239 240 242 244 247 248 249 252 254 255 256 261 265 271 273 277 278 278 282 199 PART II.-THE IRON ORE MINING INDUSTRY IN MINNESOTA. Members of households for whom detailed information was secured. 294 Present population of the ranges.. 296 297 300 Period of residence in the United States of foreign-born employees and members of their households........... 302 Racial classification of employees at the present time. 304 304 CHAPTER III.-Economic status: Industrial condition abroad of members of immigrant households studied.. 307 310 General occupation of males at the present time in the households studied. 311 312 313 Weekly earnings... 315 Relation between period of residence and earning ability 316 318 Annual earnings of males 18 years of age or over in the households studied.. 320 321 321 Wives at work... 322 Relation between the earnings of husbands and the practice of wives of keeping boarders or lodgers.... Labor employed in the several systems of mining on the Mesabi Range. Saloons, and the use of intoxicants as affecting efficiency. 341 CHAPTER VI.-Industrial and other effects of immigration: Establishment of new industries.. 343 The effect of the employment of recent immigrants upon the former employees in the lumber and mining industries. Age classification of employees and members of their households. CHAPTER IX.-General progress and assimilation: 370 Ownership of homes. 373 PART III.-THE IRON ORE MINING INDUSTRY IN MICHIGAN. History of immigration to the Gogebic Range.... Period of residence in the United States of foreign-born employees. Reasons for employing immigrants...... CHAPTER III.-Economic status: Principal occupation of immigrant employees before coming to the United Weekly earnings. Relation between period of residence and earning ability. CHAPTER IV.-Salient characteristics: PART IV. THE IRON ORE MINING INDUSTRY IN ALABAMA. CHAPTER I. Introduction: 389 390 391 396 402 408 409 409 413 414 415 417 418 421 422 425 426 428 Scope of the study..... 433 Employees for whom information was secured.. 433 CHAPTER II.-Racial displacements: Period of residence in the United States of foreign-born employees. 435 436 CHAPTER III.-Economic status: Principal occupation of immigrant employees before coming to the United |