How Workers Find Jobs : A Study of Four Thousand Hosiery Workers in Philadelphia

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas. PREFACE CONTENTS TABLES CHARTS MAPS APPENDIX C TABLES CHAPTER I. THE PURPOSE AND METHOD OF THIS INQUIRY CHAPTER II. THE FULL-FASHIONED HOSIERY WORKERS OF PHILADELPHIA CHAPTER III. THE FULL-FASHIONED HOSIERY INDUSTRY IN PHILADELPHIA CHAPTER IV. THE OCCUPATIONS OF FULL-FASHIONED HOSIERY WORKERS CHAPTER V. METHODS OF SECURING EMPLOYMENT CHAPTER VI. EMPLOYMENT BUREAUS AVAILABLE TO THE FULL-FASHIONED HOSIERY INDUSTRY CHAPTER VII. THE RE-ORGANIZATION OF THE FULL-FASHIONED HOSIERY LABOR MARKET OF PHILADELPHIA APPENDIX A. QUESTIONNAIRE DISTRIBUTED TO FULL-FASHIONED HOSIERY WORKERS APPENDIX Β. DESCRIPTION OF OCCUPATIONS APPENDIX C. TABLES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX