Living Conditions of the Wage-Earning Population in Certain Cities of Massachusetts

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Excerpt from Living Conditions of the Wage-Earning Population in Certain Cities of Massachusetts: With Some Comparisons Between the United States and the United KingdomThe weekly hours of labor were found to be 11 per cent shorter in the building trades in the United States than in England and Wales, seven per cent shorter in the printing industry, but six per cent longer in the machinery industry, the ratio shown by all the occupations in these three groups of industries together being 96 100.Unskilled labor is furnished by the Negro element in the six Southern cities and the same element is important in a few other cities, but every where under urban conditions colored labor is employed in very restricted fields, and skilled colored labor is mainly engaged in the service of the colored community itself. In the few cases in which the wages and hours of labor obtained for individual cities were those for colored work ers, they have been excluded from the calculation of the general predom inant figures for the whole field of inquiry and from the index numbers used in the internal and international comparisons.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.