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CHAPTER IV 



MANUFACTURING AND MECHANICAL PURSUITS 



In studying the whole problem of the present status of manu- 

 facturing in Indiana, the census data make possible three methods 

 of approach: (1) By the enumeration of the specific occupations 

 in which individuals reported themselves as engaged, these data 

 being obtained by the house-to-house canvass of the census agent ; 

 (2) by the facts concerning number of workers, amount of wages, 

 and value of the manufactured products, these data being obtained 

 by a canvass of the various manufacturing establishments; (3) by 

 the facts showing the importance of various lines of industrial 

 activity in this State on the basis of interstate comparisons. The 

 detailed facts under each of these will be presented in the order 

 indicated. 



PART I. OCCUPATIONAL DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRIAL 

 WORKERS 



§1. Number Employed in Industrial. Occupations and General Status 

 of Industrial Pursuits 



In 1900, 310,402 workers were reported as being engaged in 

 industrial pursuits, this number being 29.9 per cent of all workers. 

 In the previous decades from 1880 to 1900, the extraction of min- 

 erals was grouped under this head, and upon this basis in 1910 the 

 total would have been 310,402 plus 24,300 or 344,702, or 32.2 per 

 cent of all workers. This is a substantial increase both in total num- 

 bers and in percentage of growth over previous years. In 1880 

 the percentage in this group compared with the total was 17.2 

 per cent; in 1890, 20.5 per cent; in 1900, 29.9 per cent; and in 

 1910, 32.2 per cent. Table 22 shows number and percentage of 

 industrial workers for the last thirty years, and Graph 10 pictures 

 these facts. 



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