tailieunhanh - THE NEGRO AT WORK IN NEW YORK CITY

This study was begun as one of the several researches of the Bureau of Social Research of the New York School of Philanthropy, largely at the suggestion of Dr. Samuel McCune Lindsay, the director, to whose interest, advice and sympathy its completion is largely due. Sincere thanks are due the Bureau for making the investigation possible. The material was gathered between January, 1909, and January, 1910, except about four weeks in August, 1909, during the time that I was pursuing studies at the School of Philanthropy and at Columbia University. The investigation necessarily involved many questions concerning the personal. | THE NEGRO AT WORK IN NEW YORK CITY A Study in Economic Progress BY GEORGE EDMUND HAYNES . Sometime Fellow of the Bureau of Social Research New York School of Philanthropy Professor of Social Science in Fisk University New York COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LONGMANS GREEN CO. AGENTS LONDON . King SON 1912 Copyright 1912 BY GEORGE EDMUND HAYNES PREFACEToC This study was begun as one of the several researches of the Bureau of Social Research of the New York School of Philanthropy largely at the suggestion of Dr. Samuel McCune Lindsay the director to whose interest advice and sympathy its completion is largely due. Sincere thanks are due the Bureau for making the investigation possible. The material was gathered between January 1909 and January 1910 except about four weeks in August 1909 during the time that I was pursuing studies at the School of Philanthropy and at Columbia University. The investigation necessarily involved many questions concerning the personal affairs of many Negroes of New York and it is a pleasant duty to acknowledge the unvarying cheerfulness with which they rendered assistance in securing the facts. I wish to acknowledge especially the help of Dr. William L. Bulkley in making possible many of the interviews with wage-earners of Dr. Roswell C. McCrea for criticism and encouragement in preparation of the monograph and of Dr. . Pratt sometime fellow of the Bureau of Social Research Miss Dora Sandowsky for her careful and painstaking tabulation of most of the figures. They should not be charged however with responsibility for any of the errors that may be detected by the trained eye. The study as now published is incomplete. Part I the Negro as a Wage-earner and Part II the Negro in Business were to be supplemented by Part III the Negro in the Professions. But the time absorbed in gathering the 8 material for the first two parts prevented the securing of a sufficient amount of personally ascertained data for the third it seemed best to concentrate