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Burlington Self-Survey on Human Relations: Final report, 1950
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72 willingness to reveal an attitude on the matter. Only 25 per cent of the firms responded at the skilled level and approximately 15 per cent at the supervisory, office and administrative levels. If actual experience were the decisive factor in failing to respond at the higher levels, even larger proportions of firms would not have responded, beginning with the semi-skilled category. The reactions therefore seem primarily to reflect attitudes rather than realities; they show resistance to use of Negro workers in other than unskilled, non supervisory, non administrative and non office job functions. An effort was made in the inquiry to discover whether the methods used by firms for obtaining their Negro personnel and the type of availability of job training had any important bearing upon the status of the Negro worker. The survey findings do not provide any additional insight. The responses of firms are summarized in Tables XXVI, XXXVII, and XXXVIII... The most usual means of obtaining Negro workers is through contacts with the present Negro employees; small proportions are obtained through the state employment service and the company employment office. Approximately 60 per cent of the firms reported that they offer some type of job training for their workers. The most frequent type of training is of an informal nature on the job. Apprenticeship training is offered in about eleven per cent of the cases. Inasmuch as 102 of the 143 firms covered had no training, or no experience with Negroes, or did not answer the question, the replies as to whether Negro workers availed themselves of the opportunity to get additional training are unreliable. Of the 36 firms which did reply on availability of training to Negro workers, 50
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72 willingness to reveal an attitude on the matter. Only 25 per cent of the firms responded at the skilled level and approximately 15 per cent at the supervisory, office and administrative levels. If actual experience were the decisive factor in failing to respond at the higher levels, even larger proportions of firms would not have responded, beginning with the semi-skilled category. The reactions therefore seem primarily to reflect attitudes rather than realities; they show resistance to use of Negro workers in other than unskilled, non supervisory, non administrative and non office job functions. An effort was made in the inquiry to discover whether the methods used by firms for obtaining their Negro personnel and the type of availability of job training had any important bearing upon the status of the Negro worker. The survey findings do not provide any additional insight. The responses of firms are summarized in Tables XXVI, XXXVII, and XXXVIII... The most usual means of obtaining Negro workers is through contacts with the present Negro employees; small proportions are obtained through the state employment service and the company employment office. Approximately 60 per cent of the firms reported that they offer some type of job training for their workers. The most frequent type of training is of an informal nature on the job. Apprenticeship training is offered in about eleven per cent of the cases. Inasmuch as 102 of the 143 firms covered had no training, or no experience with Negroes, or did not answer the question, the replies as to whether Negro workers availed themselves of the opportunity to get additional training are unreliable. Of the 36 firms which did reply on availability of training to Negro workers, 50
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