Wage Earning and Education

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part of the work detailed studies were made of the leading industries of the city for the purpose of determining what measures should be taken by the public school system to prepare young people for wage-earn

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work, and clerical occupations. The wage-earners in these fields of employment constitute nearly 60 per cent of the total number of persons engaged in gainful occupations and

inally passed upon by the Survey Committee. Mimeographed copies were sent to representatives of the industry and to the superintendent of schools and members of the school board and their criticisms and suggestions were given careful consideration before the Committee and the director of the survey gave t

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eight separate monograph volumes. The names of the reports and the previous experience i

gent of Associated Charities; secretary of Consumers' League of Ohio; director of Girls' Bureau of Cl

ool; head of girls' department, Boardman Apprentice Shops, New Haven, Conn.; special investigator of department stores for New York State Factory Investigating Commission; three years' trad

ge; eugenic research worker New Jersey State Hospital; statistical expert in United States Bureau of Labor Investigation

stant superintendent of schools; superintendent of schools; special agent United States Immigration Commission; special agent Uni

of Department of Education of Porto Rico; took part in school surveys of Greenwich, Conn., Bridgeport,

ation Commission, the Federal Census of Manufacturers, the United States Tariff Board, the Minimum Wage Commis

e staff, with one stenographer and a clerk, were employed during the entire period. One member of t

conditions and the nature and educational content of particular occupations. Over 400 visits of this kind were made by members of the Survey Staff. Ma

maintain complete uniformity in the different inquiries, the members of the staff kept in close touch with each other, so that with respect to the points of principal importance, the results of their investigation

cational significance, and vocational training for specific occupations in which the controlling purpose is direct preparation for wage-earning. The studies were purposely limited to this latter type of vocational training. The survey did not concern itself with manual training conducted for g