Woman and Child Wage Earners, 1907 [Massachusetts, North Carolina, Chicago, and New York City] / Claudia Goldin.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 20702.

ICPSR ; 20702

Woman and Child Wage Earners Series ; 20702

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

This data collection contains work and demographic information on immigrant and native born industrial workers and their families from Massachusetts, North Carolina, Chicago, and New York City in the cotton textile and clothing industries. Information available includes occupation, days worked, earnings, job experience, literacy, schooling, family income, amounts retained by youths, and rent paid by the family. Also in the sample is similar information on young girls and boys working in the same two industries. Other industries (silk and glass) were surveyed, but are not in this sample. Data on occupation, earnings, months schooling, literacy, years since beginning work, days worked, ethnicity, and years in the United States are included. Also available is information on the presence of the mother and father, the father's occupation, other children in the family, family income, the amount retained by working children, and rent paid.

Contents:

Part 1: Woman and Child Wage Earners, 1907 [Massachusetts, North Carolina, Chicago, and New York City]

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2009-04-22.

OCLC:

436447800

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.