OF THE

BUREAU OF STATISTICS

OF

LABOR AND INDUSTRIES

OF

NEW JERSEY,

For the Year Ending October 31st,

1884.

TRENTON, N. J.:

JOHN L. MURPHY, STATE PRINTER.

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PART I.-Information Concerning Wage-earners.

Table No. 1.-Collated Statistics from Individual Employes,

Showing the Number of Hours Employed Daily, Earnings of

Self and Family, Cost of Living for Self and Family, Number

in the Family, Time Lost and Accumulation of Savings.........

Table No. 2.-Collated Statistics from Various Establishments,

Showing the Number of Hands Employed-Men, Women and

Children-Earnings of the Same, Number of Hours of Daily

Work, Movement of Wages and Time not in Operation.......... 66-203

Table No. 3.-Collated Statistics, Showing Prices Received by

Piece-workers, and the Quantity Produced Daily or Weekly;

also the Ages at which Workmen Begin to Decline and Be-

come Incapacitated for Active Work, as well as the Diseases

Peculiar to the Various Trades......

PART II.-Suggestions in Behalf of Workingmen.............

204-233

....... 235-296

Chapter 1. The Condition of Wage-earners. Remarks and Sug-

gestions by Individual Workmen and Others, Relating to the

General Condition of Employes in the Various Industrial

Establishments in the State........

237-264

Chapter 2. Industrial Education. The Skinner School, New

Haven, Conn. The Montclair Industrial School. The Newark

Technical School...........

265-273

Chapter 3. Importation of Foreign Labor under Contract........ 274–281

Chapter 4. Immigration and the Labor Problem.......

282-296

PART III.—An Attractive Industrial Experiment: Pullman.. 297-323

PART IV.—The Building and Loan Associations of New

Jersey

325-359

PART V.-Sugar from Sorghum.......

361-373