*;:>-: ANNEX Cornell University Library HD 4975.Z9V2 Facts about wage-earners in the U.S. cen 3 1924 013 987 064 IfewTfta ilwieie CI AiFioyiiore, No Dale. FACTS ABOUT W A G E - E A R N E R S IN THE UNITED STATES CENSUS A SERIES OF DIAGRAMS USED IN THE COURSE ON INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS IN THE NEW YORK SCHOOL OF PHILANTHROPY BY MARY VAN KLEECK Price, twenty-five cents October, 1915 S^p Hwn f nrk Btifxtal vf piyUattJlfrjDjtg UNITED CHARITIES BUILDING NEW YORK CITY Cornell University Library The original of tliis book is in tine Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924013987064 OTHER NUMBERS IN THIS SERIES 1. Social Work with Families and Individuals: A brief manual for investigators. By Porter R. Lee 2. Organized Charity and Industry: A chapter from the history of the New York Charity Organization Society. By Edward T. Devine 3. The Probation OfBcer at Work. By Henry W. Thurston 4. Is Social Work a Profession? By Abraham Flexner Price for the above numbers Single copies, five cents; twenty -five copies, one dollar FACTS ABOUT WAGE-EARNERS IN THE UNITED STATES CENSUS Every important industrial event, whether it be a strike or the enactment of a labor law, is shaped by the common industrial life of the country and can be understood only in its relation to the funda- mental facts about the labor of the people. Local differences and characteristic conditions in specific industries are admittedly important, but their full significance can be appreciated only if perspective be gained through a more comprehensive view. No statistics concerning wage-earners are so in- clusive as those gathered every ten years by the United States census in its count of every man, woman, and child throughout the country. The record of every gainful pursuit represented in every household is in itself a vast, detailed analysis of economic life. Supplemented by the inquiries in manufacturing establishments, it affords a back- ground for a clearer view of the industrial forces which determine conditions of living for the workers. These diagrams visualize some of the facts about the vast wage-earning population counted in the census of 1910. They are presented without inter- pretation, as a basis for class-room discussion. It is hoped that they may be equally useful to classes in schools and colleges, and to social workers and other students of industry. Movements for in- dustrial betterment are all influenced whether we know it or not by the fact that we live in a country in which the agricultural workers still outnumber the factory hands, though the factory is claiming a large proportion of the wage-earners; that we are not a homogeneous nation but a collection of states in varying stages of economic development with the plow as the chief tool in many of them while in others the machine is more important; that the number of children employed in all gainful pursuits is increasing but that of late the ranks of those in occupations other than agriculture have begun to diminish; that each decade witnesses accessions to the group of wage-earning women and that the wage system claims an ever-increasing proportion of the girls and women of the country; that the working population includes, in every hundred, 39 foreigners or the children of foreigners, 13 negroes, one Indian or Oriental, and 47 native- bom white citizens of native parentage; that between five and six per cent of the manufacturing establish- ments of the country employ 62 per cent of the workers and that 28 per cent of the wage-earners are employed in shops whose force numbers more than five hundred; that in spite of all the efforts to decrease the hours of labor under the intense strain of modern industry only eight in every hundred of the men and women in factories have so short a week as forty-eight hours, and 230,000 work seventy- two hours or more; and, finally, that only 21 of every hundred of the men and one of every hundred women receive a wage of $15 or more in a busy week of the year. These are some of the facts pictured in the diagrams. Their obvious relation to programs of action in which social workers are interested gives them a natural place in the ciirriculum of a school of philanthropy. Conditions like these, giving rise to the need for organized effort by the community, claim the attention of those who have enlisted in social service as a profession, not because social workers differ in responsibility from other citizens but because they have usually greater opportunity for first-hand knowledge of the lives of wage-earners. Out of this experience, they are expected to offer testimony, to plan ways and means for improvement, to represent the public interest in the relations of workers and employers, and to show forth their faith that industrial reconstruction is a task well within the power of any determined community. The diagrams are the result of co-operative effort. Census enumerators were the investigators and census statisticians the authors of tables from which they are derived. The drafting was done by Beatrice W. Tomlinson of the Department of Women's Work of the Russell Sage Foundation with the advice and assistance of the Division of Statistics. They have been tested before publication by actual use in the class-room in the New York School of Philanthropy. 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I [ 4B HOURS AND UNDER y///^ OVER 4B HOURS AND NOT MORE THAN 54 ^^^ OVER 54 HOURS AND NOT MORE THAN 60 HIH OVER 60 HOURS DIAGRAM 12.— WEEKLY HOURS OF LABOR OF WAGE-EARNERS IN MANUFACTURING IN THE SIX LEADING MANUFACTURING STATES. 1909 32 > s P5 {zj n s 1^ H 2 !5 l-H H ^ e » Z 5^ 03 rH rn M ^ H li ^ o 1 r/i ts iz; pl f^ i>J W o o H I-] P4 ClH ^ O S i-J i^ r/) &3 n H H o iz; r/1 f-' ro I-; P^ ^ (A O % M a 1-4 p; 5h g l-H 1^ M ^ o \ ?1 w < b ver 72 ours : § o ^ .s ?2| 1-1 •rH ^Tl o ^ d •d S-3 A a ai i9 St) h 1-1 (a ai d rH rHO so rt rH rH 5 fe S U3 t- U3 coeq 3^ o 3 to o t- lO rH US-^f OS CO 5 CO cq CO i-t pl N 00 d rHT# di> »■* CO to IM «"'§ o CO rH coco 0) g ^S. «o 00 o iOOO COrH Ig pl <»^ lo CO 00 OSrH o^ *"* ^ 1 y-t rt 00 t-co o o us r^^ 00 00 rHi* d rH m rH •M cn S I S T-t ■m VJ »13 1 1 t3 f* A '■' *> fl a 01 1 5 % H >^ e s 33 TABLE 14.— WEEKLY EARNINGS OF WAGE-EARNERS IN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES, MEN AND WOMEN, 16 YEARS OP AGE AND OVER. 1904o 1 Wage-earners whose weekly earnings were as specified Weekly earnings Men 16 years and over Women 16 years and over Number Per cent Number Per cent Total 2,619,053 100.0 588,599 100.0 Less than $6.00 305,111 368,921 551,766 860,051 491,693 51,511 11.8 13.7 21.0 31.8 18.7 2.0 292,359 165,503 81,220 43,927 5,373 217 49.8 $6.00 and less than $8.00 . . $8.00 and less than $10.00 . $10.00 and less than $15.00 $15.00 and less than $26.00 $25 . 00 and over 28.1 13.8 7.4 0.9 (6) aUnited States Census of Manufactures, 1906. Bulletin 93, p. 11. bLess than one-tenth of 1 per cent. 35 $15 AND OVER DIAGRAM 14.— WEEKLY EARNINGS OP MEN AND WOMEN EMPLOYED IN MANUFACTURING. 1904 36 TABLE 15.— PROPORTION OF TOTAL POPULATION, AND OF WAGE-EARNERS IN MANUFACTUR- ING INDUSTRIES, FOUND IN CITIES OF DIFFERENT SIZES AND IN RURAL DISTRICTS. 1909a Cities and rural districts Total population in each specified kind of community Wage-earners in manufacturing in each specified land of community Number Per cent Average number Per cent TOTAL 91,972,266 57,969,674 5,495,594 8,204,960 20,302,138 100.0 63.0 6.0 8.9 22.1 6,615,046 2,298,404 678,467 1,126,253 2,511,922 100.0 Places of less than 10,- 000 population Cities of from 10,000 to 25,000 population... Cities of from 25,000 to 100,000 population. . Cities of 100,000 popu- lation and over 34.7 10.3 17.0 38.0 oThirteenth United States Census, 1910. Vol. VIII, Manu- factures, p. 118, Table 1. 37 POPULATION WAGE-EASSERS >lK/^X.'^XX.*l*XlvvXn^^*** 22 Pf^OPOHTION or POPULhTION ANO OF WACre-'£'t/>y£liS IN r 3 PLACES OF LESS THAN 10,000 V/////X CITIES OF FROM 10,000 TO 25,000 CITIES OF FROM 25,000 TO 100,000 CITIES OF 100,000 AND OVER DIAGRAM 15.— PROPORTION OF TOTAL POPULATION, AND OF WAGE-EARNERS IN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES, FOUND IN CITIES OF DIFFERENT SIZES AND IN RURAL DISTRICTS. 1909 38