Building for the Centuries: Illinois, 1865 to 1898 |
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... workers in the entire state were American - born , and they led in every broad occupational field except mining . Native - born workers dominated desirable job clas- sifications , scattered throughout the state , and escaped the work ...
... workers in the entire state were American - born , and they led in every broad occupational field except mining . Native - born workers dominated desirable job clas- sifications , scattered throughout the state , and escaped the work ...
Page 217
... workers served the telegraph and tele- phone industry . As a result of the clerical demands of business , typists , stenographers , and bookkeepers increased from .04 per- cent of the workers in 1870 to 5.7 percent in 1900. Professional ...
... workers served the telegraph and tele- phone industry . As a result of the clerical demands of business , typists , stenographers , and bookkeepers increased from .04 per- cent of the workers in 1870 to 5.7 percent in 1900. Professional ...
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... workers gave way to the modern smokestacks of huge , impersonal factories and mines with absentee owners . Manage- ment viewed labor as a necessary factor of production to be ob- tained as inexpensively as possible , while the workers ...
... workers gave way to the modern smokestacks of huge , impersonal factories and mines with absentee owners . Manage- ment viewed labor as a necessary factor of production to be ob- tained as inexpensively as possible , while the workers ...
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Of People and Places | 1 |
Structure of Governmental Power | 35 |
Of Men and Machines | 72 |
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