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Burlington Self-Survey on Human Relations: Final report, 1950
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64 employees. The three largest firms responding to the questionnaire contained 472, 542 and 1,500 employees respectively. The distribution of Negro employees among these firms followed a parallel pattern, there being greater numbers in the larger sized firms. The sample revealed a total number of 130 Negro workers presently employed; this represented a labor force of more than four out of every ten persons in the Negro population. The degree of concentration of those employed workers is strikingly shown in the fact that three Burlington firms engaged half of the total number of Negro workers covered. Six out of every ten Negro employees are engaged by firms which have on hundred or more workers; the remaining proportion is distributed among the smaller firms of the city. Current Employment Practices Some of the indicators of the status of the Negro within the industry and business of Burlington can be seen graphically in Figure 4. Thirty per cent off the firms covered had Negro employees at the time of the study and seventy per cent did not. When asked about their experiences with Negro workers, 62 per cent of the responding firms indicated that they had never had any Negro workers. It would appear therefore that the large majority of firms without any Negro employees, at the time of the study, had not previously used them. There is a slight gain in the number of firms employing Negro workers over the eight year period between 1943 and 1950. But except as it might involve important types of industrial enterprise, the small gain of four per cent is not too significant. In substance,
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64 employees. The three largest firms responding to the questionnaire contained 472, 542 and 1,500 employees respectively. The distribution of Negro employees among these firms followed a parallel pattern, there being greater numbers in the larger sized firms. The sample revealed a total number of 130 Negro workers presently employed; this represented a labor force of more than four out of every ten persons in the Negro population. The degree of concentration of those employed workers is strikingly shown in the fact that three Burlington firms engaged half of the total number of Negro workers covered. Six out of every ten Negro employees are engaged by firms which have on hundred or more workers; the remaining proportion is distributed among the smaller firms of the city. Current Employment Practices Some of the indicators of the status of the Negro within the industry and business of Burlington can be seen graphically in Figure 4. Thirty per cent off the firms covered had Negro employees at the time of the study and seventy per cent did not. When asked about their experiences with Negro workers, 62 per cent of the responding firms indicated that they had never had any Negro workers. It would appear therefore that the large majority of firms without any Negro employees, at the time of the study, had not previously used them. There is a slight gain in the number of firms employing Negro workers over the eight year period between 1943 and 1950. But except as it might involve important types of industrial enterprise, the small gain of four per cent is not too significant. In substance,
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