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    Wage Earning and Education
    Wage Earning and Education
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    Wage Earning and Education

    By R. R. (Rufus Rolla) Lutz

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Wage Earning and Education - R. R. (Rufus Rolla) Lutz

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      Title: Wage Earning and Education

      Author: R. R. Lutz

      Release Date: October 30, 2005 [EBook #16964]

      Language: English

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      WAGE EARNING AND EDUCATION

      THE SURVEY COMMITTEE OF THE

      CLEVELAND FOUNDATION

      Charles E. Adams, Chairman

      Thomas G. Fitzsimons

      Myrta L. Jones

      Bascom Little

      Victor W. Sincere

      ———

      Arthur D. Baldwin, Secretary

      James R. Garfield, Counsel

      Allen T. Burns, Director

      THE EDUCATION SURVEY

      Leonard P. Ayres, Director

      CLEVELAND EDUCATION SURVEY

      WAGE EARNING AND EDUCATION

      BY

      R.R. LUTZ

      THE SURVEY COMMITTEE OF THE

      CLEVELAND FOUNDATION

      CLEVELAND ·  OHIO

      1916

      Copyright, 1916, BY

      THE SURVEY COMMITTEE OF THE

      CLEVELAND FOUNDATION

      WM. F. FELL CO. PRINTERS

      PHILADELPHIA

      FOREWORD

      This summary volume, entitled Wage Earning and Education, is one of the 25 sections of the report of the Education Survey of Cleveland conducted by the Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation in 1915 and 1916. Copies of all the publications may be obtained from the Cleveland Foundation. They may also be obtained from the Division of Education of the Russell Sage Foundation, New York City. A complete list will be found in the back of this volume, together with prices.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      LIST OF TABLES

      LIST OF DIAGRAMS

      WAGE EARNING AND EDUCATION

      CHAPTER IToC

      THE INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION SURVEY

      The education survey of Cleveland was undertaken in April, 1915, at the invitation of the Cleveland Board of Education and the Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation, and continued until June, 1916. As a part of the work detailed studies were made of the leading industries of the city for the purpose of determining what measures should be taken by the public school system to prepare young people for wage-earning occupations and to provide supplementary trade instruction for those already in employment. The studies also dealt with all forms of vocational education conducted at that time under public school auspices.

      Types of Occupations Studied

      Separate studies were made of the metal industry, building and construction, printing and publishing, railroad and street transportation, clothing manufacture, department store work, and clerical occupations. The wage-earners in these fields of employment constitute nearly 60 per cent of the total number of persons engaged in gainful occupations and include 95 per cent of the skilled workmen in the city. The survey also gave considerable attention to the various types of semi-skilled work found in the principal industries.

      Each separate study was assigned to a particular member of the Survey Staff who personally carried on the field investigations and later submitted a report to the director of the survey. Each report was also subjected to careful analysis and criticism from other members of the Survey Staff before it was finally passed upon by the Survey Committee. Mimeographed copies were sent to representatives of the industry and to the superintendent of schools and members of the school board and their criticisms and suggestions were given careful consideration before the Committee and the director of the survey gave their final approval to the publication of the report. The value of the work was greatly enhanced through the ample discussion of the different studies from widely diverse points of view secured in this way. The industrial studies were carried through under the direction of the author of this summary volume.

      The Survey Staff and Methods of Work

      The reports of the studies relating to vocational education were published in a series of eight separate monograph volumes. The names of the reports and the previous experience in educational and investigational work of each member of the Survey Staff are as follows:

      Boys and Girls in Commercial Work—Bertha M. Stevens; teacher in elementary and secondary schools; agent of Associated Charities; secretary of Consumers' League of Ohio; director of Girls' Bureau of Cleveland; author of Women's Work in Cleveland; co-author of Commercial Work and Training for Girls.

      Department Store Occupations—Iris P. O'Leary; head of manual training department, First Pennsylvania Normal School; head of vocational work for girls and women, New Bedford Industrial School; head of girls' department, Boardman Apprentice Shops, New Haven, Conn.; special investigator of department stores for New York State Factory Investigating Commission; three years' trade experience as employer and employee; author of books on household arts and department stores; Special Assistant for Vocational Education, State Department of Public Instruction, New Jersey.

      The Garment Trades and Dressmaking and Millinery—Edna Bryner; teacher in grades, high school, and state normal college; eugenic research worker New Jersey State Hospital; statistical expert in United States Bureau of Labor Investigation of women and child labor; statistical agent United States Post Office Department; Special Agent Russell Sage Foundation.

      The Building Trades, and The Printing Trades—Frank L. Shaw; teacher in grades and high school; principal of high school; assistant superintendent of schools; superintendent of schools; special agent United States Immigration Commission; special agent United States Census; industrial secretary North American Civic League for Immigrants; author of reports on immigration legislation.

      The Metal Trades—R.R. Lutz; teacher in rural and graded schools; superintendent of schools; secretary of Department of Education of Porto Rico; took part in school surveys of Greenwich, Conn., Bridgeport, Conn., Springfield, Ill., Richmond, Va.; Special Agent Division of Education, Russell Sage Foundation.

      Railroad and Street Transportation—Ralph D. Fleming; special agent and investigator for United States Immigration Commission, the Federal Census of Manufacturers, the United States Tariff Board, the Minimum Wage Commission of Massachusetts, the National Civic Federation, and the United States Commission on Industrial Relations.

      The work began in April, 1915, and ended in the same month of the following year. Two members of the staff, with one stenographer and a clerk, were employed during the entire period. One member of the staff was employed 11 months, one nine months, one approximately five months, and one two months.

      The field investigations consisted largely of visits to industrial establishments for the purpose of securing first-hand information as to industrial conditions and the nature and educational content of particular occupations. Over 400 visits of this kind were made by members of the Survey Staff. Many conferences were held with employers and employees with the object of securing their views as to the needs and possibilities of industrial training.

      The task of tabulating and classifying the data obtained by the individual investigators in their visits to the local industrial

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