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Oct 8, 2021 · This report presents the occupational and industrial trends over the 70-year period from 1870 to 1940–a period during which the U.S. changed from a predominantly agricultural nation to a highly industrialized urban nation. Part I.–Comparative occupation and industry statistics, 1930 and 1940. Part II.–Comparative occupation statistics ...
Oct 8, 2021 · This report presents statistics on the amount of wage or salary income and the receipt of other income in 1939 for persons 14 years old and over in the United States. The data are shown in combination with various economic and personal characteristics of the population, e.g., age, color, sex, urban and rural residence, months worked in 1939, industry, household relationship, etc.
An "occupational designation" consisted of a complete return of an occupation of the person and the industry, business, or place in which the person worked. Each occupational designation was represented in the Alphabetic Index by a five digit code symbol. The first three digits of the code indicated the occupation and the last two digits ...
Mar 25, 2021 · By 1940, no more than one-fifth of the population of the United States were self-employed. 4 Wage labor—underpaid, demanding long hours, and subjecting workers to dangerous conditions (approximately 35,000 workers died in accidents annually at the turn of the century)—had become a permanent condition. 5 Not only were the benefits of the wage economy unequally distributed, but the very ...
Oct 8, 2021 · 1940 Census of Population: Estimates of Labor Force, Employment, and Unemployment in the United States, 1940 and 1930. This report is designed to provide a basis for comparison of labor force statistics of the 1930 and 1940 censuses, by age and sex. In addition, it provides a classification of persons in the labor force by employment status ...
A NNUAL data on the labor force were not collected by the United States govern-ment before 1940. The decennial censuses prior to 1940 did include labor force enumerations, although the definitional basis of these figures was the "gainful worker" concept rather than the labor force concept which underlies census data beginning in 1940.' Stanley ...
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Oct 8, 2011 · Exploring the Jobs and Employment that Thrived in the 1930s to 1940s. The jobs and occupations in the late 1930s to early 1940s reflect a time when ordinary citizens once again had to do the extraordinary to stabilize America. America was slowly digging ourselves out the Great Depression, women got a taste of life outside the home at their new ...
