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Identifier: belltelephonemag13amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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rease of 860,000,or 130 per cent, over 1900. The excess number reported was confined largely to farmlaborers working on the home farm, and was due to a difference in the instructionsto enumerators at the two censuses. 315 BELL TELEPHONE QUARTERLY white population of working ages increased much more rapidlythan the corresponding negro population. Negro workers in-creased by 310,000 from 1910 to 1930—although they wereoutnumbered in 1930 by the foreign-born whites by nearly2,000,000—while the other races gained 540,000 workers.(This figure is partly fictitious, due to the fact that Mexicanswere counted as a separate class for the first time in 1930.) PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION OF GAINFUL *ORKERS 10 YEARS OLD AND OVER,ev GENERAL DIVISIONS OF OCCUPATIONS, FOR THE UNITED STATES: I9I0* ANO 1930 AORICULTUBEMFC. i WECH. InO Trans. J Comu.Trade (jsgtj Professional Service ^=\ Domestic 4 Personal Service IIIIIIIJI Clerical Occupations I I All Other OccucATioNst MENNative *mite WMENNATIVE Amite
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SO lOO Incidentally, the negro race has the highest proportion of anypopulation class of those aged 10 years and over gainfullyoccupied, although this percentage declined froni 71 in 1910to 59 in 1930. The figures in the accompanying chart show the reducedimportance of agriculture in 1930 for both sexes of all nativitygroups as compared with 1910, although it is still a majoractivity for negroes and native white males. Manufacturing 316 CHANGES IN OCCUPATIONAL DISTRIBUTION and mechanical pursuits have attracted an increased proportionof all male workers—notably negroes—while employing rela-tively fewer white women. There have been rather heavycrains in the proportion of white workers engaged in trade.Proportionally large numbers of white women were drawn intoprofessional service, mostly as school teachers and trainednurses, while at the same time this nativity class declined inrelative importance in the field of domestic and personalservice. Negro women apparently transferred thei

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