FARM LABOR IX MASSACHUSETTS, 1921. 
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7 and fig. 3) ; the number of those who had engaged in certain agricul- 
tural and industrial employments is given for all workers (Table 8 
and fis:s. 4 and 5). 
OCCUPATION 
COMMON 
LABOR 
ACRICULTURE 
UNSKILLED 
AGRICULTURE 
SKILLED 
INDUSTRY 
UNSKILLED 
INDUSTRY 
SKILLED 
BUSINESS 
CLERICAL 
BUSINESS 
ADMINISTRA- 
TIVE 
PUBUC 
SERVICE 
MARINE 
DOMESTIC 
PER CENT 
40 60 
SO 
100 
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AMERICAN BORN 
TOREIGN BORN 
WIDE PORTION Or BAR = UFETIME 
NARROW " •> " = RECENT 
Fig. 3. — Comparative lifetime and recent occupational history of American and foreign-born farm em- 
ployees. Percentages of each who ever engaged in certain occupations. 
Two-thirds of the workers had never engaged in skilled or respon- 
sible work of any type. That the foreign born had tended to engage 
less in skilled work" than the native born is indicated by the fact that 
