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Burlington Self-Survey on Human Relations: Final report, 1950
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71 Negro workers at unskilled, semi-skilled, skilled supervisory, office, administrative and professional categories present and interesting pattern. Since most of the firms have Negro workers only in the lower job enterprise, their responses with reference to the higher categories can be interpreted as a measure of the possible acceptability of Negroes in these job functions. It is an indirect expression of the attitude of firms toward using Negro workers in other than the traditional job functions now predominately discharged by them. The following table gives these responses. Table 15. Percentage Distribution of Firms as to the Acceptability of Negro Workers at Different Levels of Job Classification, Burlington, Iowa, 1950. Levels of Job Classification, Degree of Satisfaction or Acceptance Yes, No, Not Given Unskilled, 72.7, 2.6, 24.7 Semi-skilled, 29.7,4.5,66.2 Skilled, 14.9, 9.6, 75.7 Supervisory, 2.7, 12.2, 85.1 Office Administrative & Professional, 2.7, 10.8, 86.5 There is a clear trend of decreasing acceptance on the part of firms of using Negro workers from the lower to higher job classifications. Greatest acceptance is in unskilled hobs, and least acceptance is in jobs in the office category. An increasing number of firms disqualified themselves by not answering with respect to the higher enterprises, indicating either a lack of adequate experience to base their reactions upon, or un-
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71 Negro workers at unskilled, semi-skilled, skilled supervisory, office, administrative and professional categories present and interesting pattern. Since most of the firms have Negro workers only in the lower job enterprise, their responses with reference to the higher categories can be interpreted as a measure of the possible acceptability of Negroes in these job functions. It is an indirect expression of the attitude of firms toward using Negro workers in other than the traditional job functions now predominately discharged by them. The following table gives these responses. Table 15. Percentage Distribution of Firms as to the Acceptability of Negro Workers at Different Levels of Job Classification, Burlington, Iowa, 1950. Levels of Job Classification, Degree of Satisfaction or Acceptance Yes, No, Not Given Unskilled, 72.7, 2.6, 24.7 Semi-skilled, 29.7,4.5,66.2 Skilled, 14.9, 9.6, 75.7 Supervisory, 2.7, 12.2, 85.1 Office Administrative & Professional, 2.7, 10.8, 86.5 There is a clear trend of decreasing acceptance on the part of firms of using Negro workers from the lower to higher job classifications. Greatest acceptance is in unskilled hobs, and least acceptance is in jobs in the office category. An increasing number of firms disqualified themselves by not answering with respect to the higher enterprises, indicating either a lack of adequate experience to base their reactions upon, or un-
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