PART IV. THE IRON ORE MINING INDUSTRY IN ALABAMA. CHAPTER I.-Introduction: Table 113.-Total number of male employees for whom information was secured, by general nativity and race. (Study of employees).......... CHAPTER III.-Economic status: Table 114.-Number of male employees 18 years of age or over earning each specified amount per week, by general nativity and race. (Study of employees).. Table 115.-Number of male employees 14 and under 18 years of age earning each specified amount per week, by general nativity and race. (Study of employees).... CHAPTER IV.-Salient characteristics: Page. 563 563 564 Table 116.-Literacy of male employees, by general nativity and race. (Study of employees)..... 564 Table 117.-Conjugal condition of male employees, by age groups, general nativity, and race. (Study of employees).. 565 Table 118.-Number of male employees of each age or within each age group, by general nativity and race. (Study of employees).... 566 CHAPTER V.-General progress and assimilation: Table 119.-Present political condition of foreign-born male employees who have been in the United States five 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).... 566 LIST OF CHARTS. Page Number of employees for whom detailed information was secured, by general nativity and race... 210 Per cent of foreign-born male employees in the United States each specified number of years, by race. 214 Number of employees of each general nativity for whom detailed information was secured.. 219 IMMIGRANTS IN INDUSTRIES. ANTHRACITE COAL MINING. 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. ANTHRACITE COAL MINING. CONTENTS. PART I-GENERAL SURVEY OF THE ANTHRACITE COAL MINING Members of households for whom detailed information was secured. 588 Preparation of the report.. 590 CHAPTER II.-Racial displacements: History of immigration.. 591 Period of residence in the United States of members of immigrant households studied..... CHAPTER III.-Economic status: Industrial condition abroad of members of immigrant households studied.. The wage scale.... 593 595 598 598 599 609 Annual earnings of male heads of families studied. 610 Annual earnings of males 18 years of age or over in the households studied.. 611 613 613 Wives at work. 614 Relation between the earnings of husbands and the practice of wives of Age classification of members of households studied.. CHAPTER VII.-General progress and assimilation: 619 620 623 625 627 628 628 633 635 637 639 639 641 641 |