GLASS MANUFACTURING.

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IMMIGRANTS IN INDUSTRIES.

GLASS MANUFACTURING.

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.

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PART I-GENERAL SURVEY OF THE GLASS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY AS A WHOLE.

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Households studied..

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Members of households for whom detailed information was secured.

Employees for whom information was secured..

Comparative scope of the investigation.......

Preparation of the report......

CHAPTER II.-Racial displacements:

History of immigration....

General history of immigration to the industry.

History of representative localities....

Period of residence in the United States of foreign-born employees and

members of their households...

Racial classification of employees at the present time

CHAPTER III.-Economic status of employees and members of their households:

Industrial condition abroad of members of immigrant households studied..

Principal occupation of immigrant employees before coming to the United

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 first and second generations compared.

States...

Weekly earnings...

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..

Relation between earnings of husbands and the practice of wives in keep-

ing boarders or lodgers..

Sources of family income..

Relative importance of the 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.

Congestion..

CHAPTER VI.-Salient characteristics of the immigrant labor supply:

Literacy..

Conjugal condition..

Visits abroad....

Age classification of employees and members of their households..

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