Identifier: studyofoccupatio00bawd (find matches)
Title: Study of occupations in the cloak, suit, and skirt industry of Greater New York and an apprenticeship plan for cutters ...
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Bawden, William T. (William Thomas), 1875-1960.
Subjects: Clothing trade Manual training Technical education Apprentices
Publisher: New York city
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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s teachers, 2; students, 2. 2 Includes carpenters, 5; bakers, 2; shoemakers, 2; tobacco cutter, 1; millers, 2; locksmiths, 3; butchers,3; brass polisher, 1; ironworker, 1; brush maker, 1; wood turner, 1; boot and shoe laster, 1. 3 Includes soap maker, 1; worker in leather factory, 2; conductor, 1; a^ent at railroad station, 1; drivers,2; worker in brewery, 1; bookkeeper, 1; railroad porter and clerk, 1; common laborer, 1. * Five others learned the trade before coming to the United States.5 Students. e Includes plasterer, 1; baker, 1; bookbinder, 1; tinsmith, 1.> Includes worker in match factory, 1; worker in saloon, 1. 8 In addition to these, 7 others learned their trade in the United States, 5 by apprenticeship and 1each by private instruction and from member of his family; 5 others learned their trade before comingto the United States. 160 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS. Chart 23.—PREVIOUS OCCUPATION IN EUROPE OF 100 FOREIGN-BORNPRESSERS AND 79 FOREIGN-BORN CUTTERS.
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o OCCUPATIONS IN CLOAK INDUSTRY OF NEW YORK CITY. 161SCHOOL ATTENDANCE. Each individual was asked to state how many years he had goneto school, where the school was located, and the character of theschool. The information thus given is classified and presented inTables Q and R, but not with the idea that detailed comparisons are ofgreat significance or profit. It has not been possible to attempt toevaluate in any way a year of training in the public elementary schoolsof New York in terms of training in the schools in Russia, Poland, andelsewhere, attended by these subjects. Much less is there availableany definite measure of the comparative value of the work of theso-called public schools in Russia, in which the pupils pay tuition, andthe Yiddish parochial or private schools, and other types which havebeen mentioned in the schedules. Further, before giving great weightto the findings of such an inquiry as this it would be desirable toclassify the communities supporting the schools, ro

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