Selective factors in an expanding labor market: Lancaster, Pa: a study of employment opportunities in four manufacturing plants in Lancaster, Pa., 1928-36 |
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Contents
Purpose of the study | 6 |
Characteristics of the predepression labor | 17 |
Table Page | 20 |
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agent Amoskeag Industries Amoskeag Manufacturing Company Amoskeag mills Amoskeag workers average number Census changes closure plant closure workers CM CM committee continued Convention of Employee cost cost-of-living index cotton and worsted cotton section cotton-textile December departments depression dividend earnings effect emigrants Employee Representatives employment status England equipment experience factor French Canadians Hampshire increase Joint Convention labor market labor reserve Lancaster Lancaster County less linoleum workers liquidation located looms machinery machines Manchester Manchester's married Massachusetts mechanical ment months National Research Project NRP tabulation Number Percent O'OOI occupations October October 15 operations pay roll Percentage distribution period persons population predepression production profits Progress Administration proportion rayon records reduction rehired relief reorganization reported sample plant seeking semiskilled September shut-down silk workers skilled spindles Statistics strike surveyed total number Unem unemployed union wage rates watch workers week women worsted section
Bibliographic information
| Title | Selective factors in an expanding labor market: Lancaster, Pa: a study of employment opportunities in four manufacturing plants in Lancaster, Pa., 1928-36 Studies of the effects of industiral change on labor markets. Report, National Research Project on Reemployment Opportunities and Recent Changes in Industrial Techniques (U.S.). |
| Author | Edward J. Fitzgerald |
| Publisher | Works Progress Administration, 1939 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Dec 15, 2008 |
| Length | 92 pages |
| Subjects | › Business & Economics / Labor Lancaster (Pa.) Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations Working class |
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