The Negro at Work in New York City: A Study in Economic Progress

7,852 13,370 16

56,338 76,489 7

7,146 20,406 24

752 2,391 4,3

4,047 16,891 16

. 2,146 4,684 5

,680 7,957 9,3

4,518 5,714 7

1,130 2,419 2,

17,103 24,159

enn.[C] 5,200

2,268 5,497 8

. 4,791 7,275 8

a.[C] 3,247 6,

704 2,719 2,8

9,504 22,342 19,4

12,313 233,925

proprietors, salaried

tures, Part ii, pp. 7, 108, 115, 134, 279, 300, 335, 831, 848, 908; 1905, 12th Census, v

return

receding figures, because in 1905 all neighborhood work and

lude cotton comp

Chattanooga and Bir

both by the increase in the average number of wage-ea

here were only 8,317 miles of railroad in the thirteen states from Maryland and Delaware to Arkansas and Texas. In 1900, there were 46,735.86 miles in the same territory, an increase of 461.9 per cent. From 1900 to 1905 this increased to 55,239.22 miles or 18.2 per cent in the five years.[10] Likewise the traffic operations, including total tonnage, and freight, passeng

influence. That the Negro has been a large labor factor in the South is a patent fact. All the data available indicate that

nsus returns of 1890 and 1900 for a number of Southern cities were sufficient for an inference. For some occupations figures for 1

in the industrial and commercial centers, who require increasing numbers to supply their developing wants. In trade and transportation occupations, while the number of white wage-earners increased 25.2 per cent from 1890 to 1900, the Negro wage-earners increased 39.1 per cent during the same decade

white female workers decreased 29.1 per cent and the Negro female workers increased 36 per cent from 1890 to 1900. The decrease for the

in Southern cities for 1890 and 1900 a

ro Wage-earners in Selected Occupat

ation

es. Native