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IV. 1880-1908. The Era of Industrialism. 



1. The rise and development of the negro industrial school. 



2. The effect of negro industrial schools, with particular reference to local economic 



conditions. 



3. The development of the negro land-owner. 



4. The negro and the labor union; the attitude of white labor toward the negro in 



the trades. 



5. Negro labor in manufacturing industries. 



6. Southern prison systems in relation to the economic life of the negro. 



7. The negro and foreign immigration to the Southern States ; the problem of white 



competition. 



8. The beginning of cooperative effort ; negro business institutions ; land syndicates ; 



banks ; benefit orders, etc. 



9. The present economic status. (Property holdings; position as to skilled labor; 



census data and Federal and State labor bureaus reports ; laws ; crop lien, 

 labor agents, etc. ; the importance of agriculture and land ownership to the 

 negro ; the efforts at "colonization" and segregation in Southern and West- 

 ern States, and condition of such segregated groups, etc.) 



In addition to the foregoing a subcommittee of the Department, consisting 

 of Prof. H. B. Gardner, of Brown University, and Dr. Davis R. Dewey, of 

 the Alassachusetts Institute of Technology, and having in charge the prepara- 

 tion of an index of economic material in documents of the States of the 

 United States, has done some most excellent and satisfactory work. The 

 indexing of the documents is in charge of Miss Adelaide R. Hasse, librarian 

 of the department of public documents of the New York Public Library. 

 Probably no better person could have been selected for this very important 

 work. The committee reports that there is little doubt that the work of 

 compilation will be practically completed July i, 1908, according to her agree- 

 ment ; and the expense of compilation has been running below the estimate 

 which Miss Hasse submitted at the time the w^ork was undertaken. The 

 indexes for Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont have already been printed, 

 and several other States are practically ready for the printer. In all prob- 

 ability Miss Hasse will furnish material as rapidly as the Institution can print 

 it. Many very commendatory references have appeared, and I believe that 

 this work of the Department of Economics and Sociology will prove one of 

 the most valuable and interesting of all it has undertaken to do. 



