Wage Earning and Education eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 151 pages of information about Wage Earning and Education.

Wage Earning and Education eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 151 pages of information about Wage Earning and Education.
XIX.  The printing trades                                    195
The composing room                                     198
The pressroom                                          201
The bindery                                            203
Other occupations                                      204
The problem of training                                206

LIST OF TABLES

Table page 1.  Occupational distribution of the working population
      of Cleveland 26

 2.  Nativity of the working population in Cleveland 27

 3.  Pupils enrolled in the different grades of the public
      day schools in June, 1915 30

 4.  Enrollment of high school pupils, second semester,
      1914-15 31

 5.  Ages of pupils enrolled in public elementary, high,
      and normal schools in June, 1915 33

 6.  Educational equipment of the children who drop out
      of the public schools each year, as indicated by
      the grades from which they leave 35

 7.  Per cent of total male working population engaged in
      specified occupations, 1900 and 1910 40

 8.  Distribution of native born men between the ages of
      21 and 45 in the principal occupational groups 41

 9.  Distribution of third and fourth year students in
      trade courses in the Cleveland technical high
      schools, first semester, 1915-16 63

10.  Distribution by occupations of Cleveland’s technical
      school graduates 64

11.  Time allotment in the apprentice course given by the
      Warner and Swasey Company, Cleveland 70

12.  Course and number enrolled in the technical night
      schools, January, 1915 77

13.  Per cent of total population engaged in gainful
      occupations during three different age periods 84

14.  Number employed in the principal wage earning
      occupations among each 1,000 women from 16 to 21
      years of age 85

15.  Per cent of women employees over 18 years of age
      earning $12 a week and over 120

16.  Wages for full-time working week, women’s clothing,
      Cleveland, 1915 139

17.  Average wages for full-time working week for similar
      workers, in men’s and women’s clothing, Cleveland,
      1915 139

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