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Burlington Self-Survey on Human Relations: Final report, 1950
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7 3. The employment status of Negro family heads of city, as pictured in Figure 2, reflects both the high level of employment obtaining generally for 1950 and the almost traditional occupational distribution of Negroes associated with limited employment opportunity. There were 89 percent of the family heads who were employed and 11 percent unemployed. This represents a status about equal to that of family heads generally in the United States in 1940, ans was approximately the same as the situation in Burlington generally in June 1950, when total unemployment was approximately 10%. 1 The occupational distribution of the families, as shown by the status of the heads, gives a considerably less favorable picture. Almost six out of every ten Negro family heads are employed in common labor and service occupations. Approximately 45 percent of the Burlington heads were in service alone ; this compares with 31 percent for Pittsburgh in 1946, 2 a city furnishing larger industrial possibilities. In the state of Iowa as a whole in 1940, only 4 percent of all urban workers were in domestic service and 9 percent in other service occupations. Proportion-wise, the Burlington Negro family is as well off as the Negro family of Pittsburgh in 1946, in the occupational category for craftsmen and foremen; 16 percent of its heads fell into this classification as compared with a similar percentage for Pittsburgh. In 1940, 14 percent of all urban Iowa workers were in this occupation group; but the 1 op. Git, National Conference on Family Life. 2 Pittsburgh Self Survey
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7 3. The employment status of Negro family heads of city, as pictured in Figure 2, reflects both the high level of employment obtaining generally for 1950 and the almost traditional occupational distribution of Negroes associated with limited employment opportunity. There were 89 percent of the family heads who were employed and 11 percent unemployed. This represents a status about equal to that of family heads generally in the United States in 1940, ans was approximately the same as the situation in Burlington generally in June 1950, when total unemployment was approximately 10%. 1 The occupational distribution of the families, as shown by the status of the heads, gives a considerably less favorable picture. Almost six out of every ten Negro family heads are employed in common labor and service occupations. Approximately 45 percent of the Burlington heads were in service alone ; this compares with 31 percent for Pittsburgh in 1946, 2 a city furnishing larger industrial possibilities. In the state of Iowa as a whole in 1940, only 4 percent of all urban workers were in domestic service and 9 percent in other service occupations. Proportion-wise, the Burlington Negro family is as well off as the Negro family of Pittsburgh in 1946, in the occupational category for craftsmen and foremen; 16 percent of its heads fell into this classification as compared with a similar percentage for Pittsburgh. In 1940, 14 percent of all urban Iowa workers were in this occupation group; but the 1 op. Git, National Conference on Family Life. 2 Pittsburgh Self Survey
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