This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...wages has been kept so high that the industry continues to 1 Statistics from "Twelfth Census (1900): Occupations." attract the more intelligent native-born working people.1 It is, of course, quite obvious that by the payment of high wages the boot and shoe industry has been able to hold its American working people as ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...wages has been kept so high that the industry continues to 1 Statistics from "Twelfth Census (1900): Occupations." attract the more intelligent native-born working people.1 It is, of course, quite obvious that by the payment of high wages the boot and shoe industry has been able to hold its American working people as the cotton industry has not. There is, however, another possible explanation of this point in the fact that the shoe manufacture is one of the industries in which America 1/ has pioneered. In the cotton industry, immigrant operatives were quite likely to be equal or even superior to the native born in skill and training, but American methods in the making of shoes have been unique, and immigrant labor therefore has meant for this industry unskilled labor, only a limited amount of which could be utilized. 1 The tables in Chapter XII, pp. 305, 307, make it clear that wages are in general much higher in the shoe factories than in the cotton mills. As long ago as 1872, an operative from a Massachusetts town which contained both cotton mills and shoe factories, in his testimony before the State Bureau of Labor, said, with regard to the frequent changes in the working force of the cotton mills: "There is shoemaking in town, for boys, and a great deal of stitching on machines, for girls. Their wages in the mill are very low--some ten to sixteen dollars a month--and as soon as the children are old enough they leave, the girls going to the stitching machines, the boys to shoemaking."--CHAPTER IX CIGABMAKING The increased employment of women in cigarmaking seems to indicate its tendency to develop into a "women's industry" and furnishes an interesting example of the industrial displacement of menby women. The history of the ...
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