Wage Earning and Education
by R. R. Lutz
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Chapters (156)
- WAGE EARNING AND EDUCATION
- THE SURVEY COMMITTEE OF THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION
- THE EDUCATION SURVEY
- CLEVELAND EDUCATION SURVEY
- WAGE EARNING AND EDUCATION
- R.R. LUTZ
- WM. F. FELL CO. PRINTERS PHILADELPHIA
- FOREWORD
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- LIST OF TABLES
- LIST OF DIAGRAMS
- WAGE EARNING AND EDUCATION
- CHAPTER IToC
- THE INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION SURVEY
- Types of Occupations Studied
- The Survey Staff and Methods of Work
- CHAPTER IIToC
- FORECASTING FUTURE PROBABILITIES
- The Popular Concept of Industrial Education
- The Importance of Relative Numbers
- A Constructive Program Must Fit the Facts
- An Actuarial Basis for Industrial Education
- CHAPTER IIIToC
- THE WAGE EARNERS OF CLEVELAND
- TABLE 1.—OCCUPATIONAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE WORKING POPULATION OF CLEVELAND, CENSUS OF OCCUPATIONS, 1910TableList
- TABLE 2.—NATIVITY OF THE WORKING POPULATION IN CLEVELAND. U.S. CENSUS, 1910TableList
- CHAPTER IVToC
- THE FUTURE WAGE-EARNERS OF CLEVELAND
- The Public Schools
- TABLE 3.—PUPILS ENROLLED IN THE DIFFERENT GRADES OF THE PUBLIC DAY SCHOOLS IN JUNE, 1915TableList
- TABLE 4.—ENROLLMENT OF HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS, SECOND SEMESTER, 1914-1915TableList
- Ages of Pupils
- TABLE 5.—AGES OF PUPILS ENROLLED IN PUBLIC ELEMENTARY, HIGH, AND NORMAL SCHOOLS IN JUNE, 1915TableList
- Education at the Time of Leaving School
- TABLE 6.—EDUCATIONAL EQUIPMENT OF THE CHILDREN WHO DROP OUT OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS EACH YEAR, AS INDICATED BY THE GRADES FROM WHICH THEY LEAVETableList
- CHAPTER VToC
- INDUSTRIAL TRAINING FOR BOYS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
- TABLE 7—PER CENT OF TOTAL MALE WORKING POPULATION ENGAGED IN SPECIFIED OCCUPATIONS, 1900 AND 1910TableList
- What the Boys in School Will Do
- TABLE 8.—DISTRIBUTION OF NATIVE BORN MEN BETWEEN THE AGES OF 21 AND 45 IN THE PRINCIPAL OCCUPATIONAL GROUPSTableList
- Organization and Costs
- What the Elementary Schools Can Do
- CHAPTER VIToC
- THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
- Specialized Training Not Practicable
- A General Industrial Course
- Industrial Mathematics
- Mechanical Drawing
- Industrial Science
- Shop Work
- Vocational Information
- CHAPTER VIIToC
- TRADE TRAINING DURING THE LAST YEARS IN SCHOOL
- The Technical High Schools
- TABLE 9.—DISTRIBUTION OF THIRD AND FOURTH YEAR STUDENTS IN TRADE COURSES IN THE CLEVELAND TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLS, FIRST SEMESTER, 1915-1916TableList
- TABLE 10.—DISTRIBUTION BY OCCUPATION OF CLEVELAND TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATESTableList
- A Two-Year Trade Course
- CHAPTER VIIIToC
- TRADE-PREPARATORY AND TRADE-EXTENSION TRAINING FOR BOYS AND MEN AT WORK
- TABLE 11.—TIME ALLOTMENT IN THE APPRENTICE COURSE GIVEN BY THE WARNER AND SWASEY COMPANY, CLEVELANDTableList
- Continuation Training from 15 to 18
- The Technical Night Schools
- TABLE 12.—COURSES AND NUMBER ENROLLED IN THE TECHNICAL NIGHT SCHOOLS, JANUARY, 1915TableList
- A Combined Program of Continuation and Trade-Extension Training
- CHAPTER IXToC
- VOCATIONAL TRAINING FOR GIRLS
- TABLE 13.—PER CENT OF TOTAL POPULATION ENGAGED IN GAINFUL OCCUPATIONS DURING THREE DIFFERENT AGE PERIODSTableList
- TABLE 14.—NUMBER EMPLOYED IN THE PRINCIPAL WAGE-EARNING OCCUPATIONS AMONG EACH 1,000 WOMEN FROM 16 TO 21 YEARS OF AGETableList
- Differentiation in the Junior High School
- Specialized Training for the Sewing Trades
- Other Occupations
- CHAPTER XToC
- VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE
- The Work of the Vocational Counselor
- The Girls' Vocation Bureau
- CHAPTER XIToC
- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- CHAPTER XIIToC
- SUMMARY OF REPORT ON BOYS AND GIRLS IN COMMERCIAL WORK
- A General View of Commercial Work
- Bookkeeping
- Stenography
- Clerks' Positions
- Wages and Regularity of Employment
- The Problem of Training
- CHAPTER XIIIToC
- SUMMARY OF REPORT ON DEPARTMENT STORE OCCUPATIONS
- Department Stores
- Neighborhood Stores
- Five and Ten Cent Stores
- Wages and Employment
- TABLE 15.—PER CENT OF WOMEN EMPLOYEES OVER 18 YEARS OF AGE EARNING $12 A WEEK AND OVERTableList
- Regularity of Employment
- Opportunities for Advancement
- The Problem of Training
- Character of the Instruction
- CHAPTER XIVToC
- SUMMARY OF REPORT ON THE GARMENT TRADES
- Characteristics of the Working Force
- Earnings
- TABLE 16.—WAGES FOR FULL-TIME WORKING WEEK, WOMEN'S CLOTHING, CLEVELAND, 1915TableList
- TABLE 17.—AVERAGE WAGES FOR FULL-TIME WORKING WEEK FOR SIMILAR WORKERS, MEN'S AND WOMEN'S CLOTHING, CLEVELAND, 1915TableList
- Regularity of Employment
- Training and Promotion
- Educational Needs
- Sewing Courses in the Public Schools
- Elective Sewing Courses in the Junior High School
- A One Year Trade Course for Girls
- Trade-Extension Training
- CHAPTER XVToC
- SUMMARY OF REPORT ON DRESSMAKING AND MILLINERY
- Dressmaking
- Millinery
- The Problem of Training
- CHAPTER XVIToC
- SUMMARY OF REPORT ON THE METAL TRADES
- Foundry and Machine Shop Products
- TABLE 18.—PROPORTIONS AND ESTIMATED NUMBERS EMPLOYED IN MACHINE TOOL OCCUPATIONS, 1915TableList
- TABLE 19.—AVERAGE, HIGHEST, AND LOWEST EARNINGS, IN CENTS PER HOUR, AND PER CENT EMPLOYED ON PIECE WORK AND DAY WORK, 1915TableList
- TABLE 20.—ESTIMATED TIME REQUIRED TO LEARN MACHINE TOOL WORKTableList
- TABLE 21.—AVERAGE EARNINGS PER HOUR IN PATTERN MAKING, MOLDING, CORE MAKING, BLACKSMITHING, AND BOILER MAKINGTableList
- Automobile Manufacturing
- Steel Works, Rolling Mills, and Related Industries
- CHAPTER XVIIToC
- SUMMARY OF REPORT ON THE BUILDING TRADES
- Sources of Labor Supply
- TABLE 22.—ESTIMATED NUMBER OF MEN ENGAGED IN BUILDING TRADES, 1915TableList
- Apprenticeship
- TABLE 23.—UNION REGULATIONS AS TO ENTERING AGE OF APPRENTICESTableList
- TABLE 24.—UNION REGULATIONS AS TO LENGTH OF APPRENTICESHIP PERIODTableList
- Union Organization
- Earnings
- TABLE 25.—UNION SCALE OF WAGES IN CENTS PER HOUR MAY 1, 1915TableList
- TABLE 26.—USUAL WEEKLY WAGES OF APPRENTICES IN THREE BUILDING TRADESTableList
- Hours
- Regularity of Employment
- Health Conditions
- Opportunities for Advancement
- The Problem of Training
- CHAPTER XVIIIToC
- SUMMARY OF REPORT ON RAILROAD AND STREET TRANSPORTATION
- Railroad Transportation
- Motor and Wagon Transportation
- Street Railroad Transportation
- CHAPTER XIXToC
- SUMMARY OF REPORT ON THE PRINTING TRADES
- Composing Room Workers
- TABLE 27.—AVERAGE DAILY EARNINGS OF JOB AND NEWSPAPER COMPOSING-ROOM WORKERS, 1915TableList
- The Pressroom
- TABLE 28.—AVERAGE DAILY EARNINGS OF PRESSROOM WORKERS, 1915TableList
- The Bindery
- TABLE 29.—AVERAGE DAILY EARNINGS OF BINDERY WORKERS, 1915TableList
- Other Occupations
- TABLE 30.—AVERAGE DAILY EARNINGS IN PHOTOENGRAVING, STEREOTYPING, ELECTROTYPING, AND LITHOGRAPHING OCCUPATIONS, 1915TableList
- The Problem of Training
- CLEVELAND EDUCATION SURVEY REPORTS
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