Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor (1869)
The Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor was founded in 1869 to gather economic data about employment and labor, thereby making Massachusetts the first state in the Union to create a bureau designed to monitor state labor conditions. It was embroiled in controversy from the very beginning, since labor activists wanted it to serve as a pro-labor lobbying organization, and business interests wanted the bureau to be neutral in economic disputes between labor and business.
In 1873, the Governor of Massachusetts appointed Carroll Davidson Wright to be the Commissioner of the bureau in order to "make it or bust it." Although Wright did not have very much experience in either statistics or labor issues, he was determined to make the new bureau an objective, scientific organization that was free of political bias toward any side. Indeed, a friend claimed that Wright once said, "Figures won't lie, but liars will figure." Due to his effective leadership of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor, Wright was later appointed to be the first director of the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Thanks to Massachusett's pioneering example, by 1883 twelve other sates had founded labor statistics bureaus of their own.
A Note on Annual Reports of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor
The Annual Reports of the Bureau are a rich resource on the social issues of the time. More than compilations of data, the Annual Reports comprise serious research studies and analyses on a wide range of topics. The Bureau looked abroad to understand similar problems and conditions, and often commissioned studies by other organizations. The Bureau studied the labor movement, working conditions in mill towns, Boston, and Cape Cod, immigrants, retail trade and manufacturing, tenement conditions, health of workers (women and children in particular) and published their research findings and recommendations in their Annual Reports.
The Open Collections Program has digitized the published reports from 1869-1924 with the cooperation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Library and the State Library of Massachusetts, who lent volumes from their collections.
OCP Resources
Publications
Wright, Carroll Davidson. Health statistics of female college graduates : (from the sixteenth Annual report of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor). Boston: Wright & Potter Print Co., state printers, 1885.
Health statistics of women college graduates: report of a special committee of the Association of Collegiate Alumnæ; Annie G. Howes, chairman ; together with statistical tables collated by the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor. Boston: Wright & Potter Print Co., state printers, 1885.
Wright, Carroll Davidson. Art in industry. Boston: Wright & Potter Print Co., 1886.
Wright, Carroll Davidson. The working girls of Boston. Boston: Wright & Potter Print Co., 1889.
Wright, Carroll Davidson. Comparative wages, prices, and cost of living: (from the Sixteenth annual report of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor, for 1885). Boston: Wright & Potter Print Co., state printers, 1889.
Wadlin, Horace G. Women in industry. Boston: Wright & Potter Print Co., state printers, 1890.
Wadlin, Horace G. Unemployment. Boston: Wright & Potter Print Co., state printers, 1894.
Wadlin, Horace G. Compensation in certain occupations of graduates of colleges for women. Boston: Wright & Potter Print Co., state printers, 1895.
Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor. Social statistics of working women / prepared by the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor; tabulated and analyzed under the direction of John Hyde, from information collected by the School of Housekeeping, Boston, Massachusetts. Boston: [s.n.], 1901.
Pidgin, Charles. Trained and supplemental employees for domestic service. Boston: Wright & Potter Print Co., state printers, 1906.
Kingsbury, Susan. Licensed workers in industrial home work in Massachusetts: analysis of current records under the auspices of the Bureau of Research, Women's Educational and Industrial Union. Boston: Wright & Potter, state printers, 1915.
Annual Reports
Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor, Annual Reports, 1869-1924..
Highlights (click the date for a more detailed table of contents)
1869/70 Working women, their condition, wages, etc.; North End Mission
1870/71 History and development of gilds and trade unions, child labor, poor in Boston
1871/72 Chinese labor, factory conditions, schooling factory children, labor in Europe
1872/73 Wages, hours, ownership of real estate, tenements in Salem
1874 Sanitary conditions in homes, comparative wages, conditions in textile mills
1875 Education of working children, health of female workers, legislation
1876 Wages and salaries, history of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor and legislation
1877 Industrial arbitration, afflicted classes, pauperism and crime, factory safety
1878 Mass. manufactures, education, conjugal conditions of women, worker nativity
1879 Unemployment, testimony of workingmen, statistics of drunkenness
1880 Convict labor, divorces in Mass., social life of workingmen
1881 Statistics of drunkenness, uniform hours of labor, influence of intemperance on crime
1882 Canadian French in New England, citizenship, Fall River, Lowell, and Lawrence
1883 Early factory labor in New England by Harriet H. Robinson
1884 Working girls of Boston, comparative wages and cost of living, 1860-1883
1885 Pullman, Illinois company town, history of wages 1860-1883, health statistics of women
1886 Food consumption, profit sharing, art in industry
1887 Unemployed from the census of 1885
1888 Strikes and lockouts, citizens and aliens
1889 Women in industry, working conditions, growth of manufactures
1890 Labor laws, population, abandoned farms, profits in manufacturing
1891 Tenement census of Boston, rooms and rents
1892 Tenement census of Boston, sanitary conditions, place of birth, occupations of residents
1893 Unemployment, labor chronology
1894 Compensation of women college graduates, distribution of wealth, labor chronology
1895 Liquor traffic and pauperism, crime and insanity, wages, labor chronology
1896 Social and industrial changes in Barnstable County (Cape Cod), wages, labor chronology
1897 Comparative wages and prices, 1860-1897, labor chronology
1898 Sunday labor, wages, labor chronology
1899 Retail trade in Boston since 1874, labor chronology
1900 Population of Massachusetts, insurance of working men, prices, 1816-1891
1901 Labor chronology, prices and cost of living, labor laws
1902 Mercantile wages and salary, sex in industry, labor chronology
1903 Race in industry (ethnic origins), employment offices, labor chronology
1904 Earnings, causes of high prices, labor chronology
1905 Industrial education of girls, cotton manufactures, old-age pensions, labor chronology
1906 Apprenticeship system, training for domestic service, trade unions, labor chronology
1907 Strikes and lockouts, British legislation, employment offices, wage rates
1908 Strikes and lockouts, labor organizations, wage rates
1909 Memorial to Carroll Davidson Wright, strikes and lockouts, labor organizations, wages
1910 Living conditions in cities of Mass., strikes and lockouts, wage rates
1911 Strikes and lockouts, labor organizations, collective agreements
1912 Immigrant population of Massachusetts, labor bibliography, strikes and lockouts
1913 Labor legislation, labor organizations
1914 Union wages and hours, immigrant aliens, industrial home work, labor bibliography
1915 Immigrant aliens, wages and hours in paper industry, labor bibliography
1916 Labor legislation, injunctions, wages and hours in railway service
1917 Union wages and hours, collective agreements, labor legislation
1918 Union wages and hours, labor legislation, statistics of labor organizations
1919 Union wages and hours, labor legislation
1920 Union wages and hours, wages and hours in metal trades
1921 Union wages and hours, statistics of labor organizations
1922 Population and resources of Cape Cod, union wages and hours
1923 Union wages and hours, statistics of labor organizations
1924 Union wages and hours, employment and earnings trends in manufacturing
1869/1870, First. 416p.
"In addition to the general subject-matter suggested by the Resolve creating this Bureau, and germane thereto, there will be found herein a brief sketch of the history of labor and laborers, and of the poor, and of the legislation in reference to them in England, from the beginning of the 14th century down to the present time… We have also attempted a history of the same subjects in Massachusetts… To these is added the testimony, written and oral, of actual operatives and laborers…" (Introduction)
The appendix includes tables listing occupations, nationalities, wages, hours of labor, habits, education, wages for 1861 and 1869, employment in cotton and woolen factories, pp. 199-416.
Remarks of a Working Women, their Condition, Wages, etc. etc.", p. 360-365.
"North End Mission", p. 366-367.
^ top1870/1871, Second. 655p.
"The present Report will embrace information on new and interesting subjects, among them being an account of the origin of combination, and its development into Gilds of ancient times with their several varieties (necessarily derived from foreign sources), and the Trades- Unions of modern days… Following these, there is given information upon agricultural, domestic, commercial, manufacturing, mechanical and other industrial subjects… wages, earnings and cost of living, methods of work, working time, hours of labor, educational condition, women's work and wages, factory life, child-labor with tables and their explanation, comments thereon and conclusions..." p. 3-4.
Special subjects in this volume include: savings banks, investigations into the establishment of co- operatives, the employment of children in factories, impact of the voluntary reduction of hours of labor, wages abroad, and an examination of the homes of the poor in Boston.
Index: p. 643-655.
^ top1871-72, Third. 598p.
Statistics: agriculture, commercial, domestic labor and woman's work, industrial, mechanical, hours of labor, cost of living, workingmen's statistics, savings banks, p. 6-344.
Testimony and Narrative: Conditions of operatives in factory and manufacturing towns, Chinese labor, truck system, accidents, strikes, homes of the working classes, schools for factory children. p. 344-446.
Argument and Recommendations: education, half-time schools, unschooled children in Massachusetts, purchasing power of wages in England and Massachusetts. p. 446-541.
Research reports on cooperatives in Germany, schools in Prussia, labor in Austria and Hungary, truck system in England, strike by agricultural laborers in England, and the cost of crime. p. 544-580.
Index: p. 581-598.
^ top1872/73, Fourth. 522p.
Statistics: Wages in earnings in manufacturing and mechanical employments, wages and earnings of unskilled laborers, cost of living, savings banks, ownership of real and personal estate, hours of labor. p. 5-246.
Testimony and Narrative: Labor movement in the U.S. and England, special occupations, cooperation, cooperative societies, industrial copartnerships, half-time schools, tenements in Salem. p. 247-380.
Argument and recommendations: education, condition of labor, poverty, wages, cooperation, reduction in hours of labor, limitations of time, ten hour work week. p. 381-503.
Index: p. 505-522.
^ top1874, Fifth. 281p.
Education and employment of young persons and children and digest of American and European laws relative to the subject, p. 1-20.
Relative to professional men, p. 21-27.
The sanitary condition of working people in their homes and employment, p. 29-48.
Comparative rates of wages and hours of labor in Massachusetts and foreign countries, p. 49-108.
Condition of textile fabric manufactories in Massachusetts, and digest of laws relative to machinery and sanitary matters, p. 109-159.
Prices of provisions, clothing, rent, etc., in Massachusetts and Europe;purchase power of money, p. 161-200.
Savings banks, p. 201-247.
Miscellaneous, p. 249-265.
Index: p. 267-281.
^ top1875, Sixth. 503p.
The education of working children, p. 1-63.
Special effects of certain forms of employment upon female health, p. 67-112.
Factory legislation, p. 115-187.
Condition of workingmen's families, p. 191-450.
Co-operation, p.453-490.
Index, p. 491-503.
^ top1876, Seventh. 363p.
Wage receivers, p. 2-202.
- Occupation and presentation by schedule questions
- Presentation of counties and exhibit of averages
- Family presentation
- Presentation of special cities and towns, and exhibit of averages
- Presentation of twenty important occupations, and exhibit of averages
Salary receivers, p. 203-258
- Occupation and presentation by schedule questions
- Presentation of counties and exhibit of averages
Appendix: History of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor and of labor legislation in Massachusetts, p. 261-357.
Index, p. 359-363.
^ top1877, Eighth. 295p.
Industrial arbitration and conciliation in England and Massachusetts, p. 1-49.
Co-operation in Massachusetts, p. 51-137.
Motive power of Massachusetts: or, the labor of the sun, p. 139-154.
The afflicted classes. [Blind, deaf, dumb, idiotic and insane] p. 155-181.
Pauperism and crime, p. 183-228.
Massachusetts manufactories: persons employed in each story and their means of escape in case of fire, p. 229-291.
Index, p. 293-295.
^ top1878, Ninth. 266p.
Comparative condition of manufactures and labor, 1875 and 1877, p. 1-9.
The education and labor of the young. The half-time system, p. 11-34.
The growth of Massachusetts manufactures, p. 35-84.
The relative importance of private establishments and corporations in manufacturing industries, p. 85-98.
Conjugal condition, nativities and ages of married women and mothers, p. 99-158.
Nativities, ages and illiteracy of farmers, farm laborers, skilled workmen in manufactures and mechanical industries and unskilled labor, 159-262.
Index p. 263-266.
^ top1879, Tenth. 180p.
Index to subjects, p. v.
The unemployed in Massachusetts, June and November 1878, p. 1-13.
Convict labor, p. 15-57.
Wages and prices, 1860, 1872, and 1878, p. 59-95.
Testimony of workingmen, 97-139.
The hours of labor, p. 141-164.
Statistics of drunkenness a liquor selling under prohibitory and license legislation, 1874 and 1877, p. 165-180.
^ top1880, Eleventh. 294 p.
Index to subjects, p. v-vii.
Strikes in Massachusetts, p. 1-71.
Convict labor, p. 73-121.
Statistics of crime, 1860-1879, p. 123-195.
Divorces in Massachusetts, 1860-1878, p. 197-235.
Social life of workingmen, p. 237-294.
^ top1881, Twelfth. 531p.
Index to subjects, p. v-xi.
Industrial arbitration and conciliation, p.1-75.
Statistics of drunkenness and liquor selling, 1870-79, p. 77-319.
Uniform hours of labor, p. 321-476.
Influence of intemperance upon crime, p. 477-531.
^ top1882, Thirteenth. 459 p.
Index to Subjects, p.v-xi.
The Canadian French in New England, p. 1-92.
Citizenship, p. 93-192.
- Including nativities of voters and aliens by towns arranged alphabetically.
Fall River, Lowell, and Lawrence, p. 193-415.
Wages, prices, and profits, p. 417-459.
^ top1883, Fourteenth. 401p.
Index to subjects, p. v-viii.
Employers' liability for personal injuries to their employees, p. 1-178.
- Includes laws of other countries, the states, and territories.
Time and wages, p. 179-242.
Profits and earnings, p. 243-376.
Early factory labor in New England, p. 377-401.
- Written by Harriet H. Robinson, a mill girl who later wrote Loom and Spindle (1898), she discusses the life of mill girls and the Lowell Offering.
1884, Fifteenth. 469p.
Index to subjects, v-xi.
The Working girls of Boston, p. 1-184.
- Also published separately in 1889 by Carroll D. Wright.
Comparative wages 1883, Massachusetts and Great Britain, p. 185-316.
Comparative wages, 1860-1883, Massachusetts and Great Britain, p. 317-434.
Comparative prices and cost of living, 1860-1883, Massachusetts and Great Britain, p. 435-469.
^ top1885, Sixteenth. 532p.
Index to subjects, v-xvi.
Pullman, p. 1-28.
- A report on a visit to the Pullman, Illinois, a company town created by The Pullman Palace Car Company in 1881-1884.
Sunday labor, p. 29-102.
Comparative wages and prices, 1860-1883, Massachusetts and Great Britain, p. 103-158.
Historical review of wages and prices, 1752-1860, p. 159-470.
- Published separately in 1889 by Carroll D. Wright as Comparative prices, wages, prices, and cost of living.
Health statistics of female college graduates, prepared by the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, p. 471-532.
- Published separately in 1885.
1886, Seventeenth. 393p. Note: p.xii is Missing.
Index to Subjects, v-xv.
Henry Kemble Oliver, p. 1-48.
- General Henry K. Oliver was the first chief of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor.
Co-operative distribution in Great Britain, p. 49-154.
Profit sharing, p. 155-236.
Food consumption, quantities, costs, and nutrients of food materials, p. 237-328.
Art in industry, p. 329-394.
- Published separately by Carroll D. Wright in 1886.
1887, Eighteenth. 294p.
Index to Subjects, v-xii.
The Unemployed. From the State Census of 1885, p. 1-29r.
^ top1888, Nineteenth. 225p. Note: In 1888, Carroll Davidson Wright assumed the post of Commissioner of Labor of the United States. This is the first report by his successor Horace G. Wadlin.
Index of subjects, p. v-xii.
Strikes and Lockouts. 1825-1886, p. 1-118.
Citizens and Aliens, p. 119-225.
- Polls, voters, and aliens by place of birth by towns arranged alphabetically.
1889, Twentieth. 649p.
Index to Subjects, p. v-xxxiii.
Relation of wages to the cost of production, p. 1-84.
Markets, transportation, imports, exports, and competition, p. 85-230.
Condition of employees, p. 231-286.
The growth of manufactures, p. 287-402.
Classified "weekly" wages, p. 403-444.
Daily "working time, p. 445-518.
Women in industry, p. 519-602.
- Published separately by Horace G. Wadlin in 1890.
Index to Reports. 1870-1889. Twenty years, p. 603-649.
^ top1890, Twenty-First. 630 p.
Index to subjects, p. vii-xxiv.
Labor laws of Massachusetts, p. 1-112.
Population of Massachusetts. 1890. From the Eleventh United States census, p. 113-176.
Abandoned farms in Massachusetts, p. 177-258.
Net profits in manufacturing industries, p. 259-630.
^ top1891, Twenty-Second. 579p.
Index to Subjects, vii-xix.
A Tenement house census of Boston Tenements, rooms, and rents, p. 1-579.
^ top1892, Twenty-Third. 440p.
Index to subjects, ii-xvi.
A Tenement house census of Boston. Sanitary condition of tenements, p. 1-166.
A Tenement house census of Boston. Place of birth, occupations, etc., of residents in tenement houses, p. 167-440.
^ top1893, Twenty-Fourth. 311p.
Index to subjects, v-xiv.
Unemployment, p. 1-268.
Labor chronology 1893, p. 269-311.
- Hours of labor, wages, trades unions, condition of workingmen, and labor legislation.
1894, Twenty-Fifth. 337p.
"This report consists of three parts : the first relating to the compensation of women in certain occupations; the second forming a preliminary section of an investigation into the distribution of wealth; and the third containing a chronological record of the principal events connected with organized labor in Massachusetts during the year 1894, together with a summary of labor legislation enacted during the session of the legislature of 1895. A similar record was begun in the Twenty-fourth report, and is now continued" (Horace G. Wadlin, Letter of transmittal.)
Index to subjects, v-xvii.
Compensation in certain occupations of graduates of colleges for women, p. 1-48.
- Conducted by the Association of Collegiate Alumnae. Despite the title, the study was not limited to college graduates but includes women whose work required training. (Note:xx )
- Published separately by Horace G. Wadlin in 1895.
The distribution of wealth probates, p. 49-304.
Labor chronology. 1894, p. 305-337.
- Hours of labor, wages, trades unions, condition of workingmen, and labor legislation.
1895, Twenty-Sixth. 748p.
Index to Subjects, v-xvii.
Relation of the liquor traffic to pauperism, crime, and insanity, p. 1-416.
Graded weekly wages, p. 417-708.
Labor chronology. 1895, p. 709-748.
- Hours of labor, wages, trades unions, condition of workingmen, and labor legislation.
1896, Twenty-Seventh. 353p.
Index to subjects, p. v-xv.
Social and industrial changes in the county of Barnstable (Cape Cod), p. 1-104.
- "…Industrial condition of the towns in Barnstable County, and the exact composition of the population, as affected by immigration, especially of Western Islanders…" (p. 4.).
Graded weekly wages, p. 105-306.
Labor chronology. 1896, p. 307-353.
- Hours of labor, wages, trades unions, condition of workingmen, and labor legislation.
1897, Twenty-Eighth. 367p.
Index to subjects, p. v-xiv.
Comparative wages and prices. 1860-1897, p.1-42.
Graded weekly wages : Mass., other United States, and foreign countries. 1810- 1891, p. 43-310.
Labor chronology. 1897, p. 311-367.
- Hours of labor, wages, trades unions, condition of workingmen, and labor legislation.
1898, Twenty-Ninth. 659p.
Index to subjects, p. v-xxiv.
Sunday labor, p. 1-100.
Graded weekly wages: Mass., other United States, and foreign countries. 1810-1891, p. 101-484.
Labor chronology. 1898. p. 486-659.
- Hours of labor, wages, trades unions, condition of workingmen, and legislation, 1899.
1899, Thirtieth. 247p.
Index to Subjects, v-xxii.
Changes in conducting retail trade in Boston, since 1874, p. 1-70.
Labor Chronology. 1899, p. 73-248.
- Hours of labor, wages, trades unions, condition of workingmen, labor legislation.
1900, Thirty-First. 792p.
Index to Subjects, v-xvi.
Population of Massachusetts. 1900. From the twelfth United States census, p. 1-64. The principal statistical tables are the following:
- Present population of cities and towns, alphabetically arranged.
- Population of the counties, cities, and towns, at three census dates, 1890, 1895, and 1900, with increase or decrease in numbers and percentages.
- Population of the congressional districts in detail, by cities and towns, in 1890 and 1900, with increase or decrease numerically and by percentages.
- Population of cities and towns according to rank in 1900, with comparative figures as to rank for 1890 and 1895.
The Insurance of workingmen, p. 65-248.
Graded prices: Massachusetts, other United States, and foreign countries. 1816-1891, p. 249-792.
^ top1901, Thirty-Second. 358p.
Index to Subjects, v-xviii.
Labor chronology. 1900. p.1-130.
- Data on hours of labor, wages, strikes and lockouts, social and industrial benefits, labor legislation, and trades unions.
Labor chronology. 1901. p.131-238.
- Data on hours of labor, wages, strikes and lockouts, social and industrial benefits, labor legislation, and trades unions.
Prices and the cost of living, p.289-814.
Labor laws of Massachusetts, p.315-358.
^ top1902, Thirty-Third. 260p.
Note: Charles F. Pidgin appointed Chief of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor upon the resignation of Horace G. Wadlin. Labor legislation is no longer reported in the "Labor Chronology" as this information is published in the Labor Laws of Massachusetts.
Labor chronology for the year ending September 30, 1902, p. 17-79.
- Data on hours of labor, wages, strikes and lockouts, workingmen's social and industrial benefits, and trades unions.
Mercantile wages and salaries, p.83-129.
Sex in industry, p. 133-257.
Index to parts and subjects, p. 259-260.
^ top1903, Thirty-Fourth. 436p.
Race in Industry, p. 1-130.
- "The information contained therein was derived from the schedules of the State Census of 1895. The object of the presentation was to show not only the number born in a specified country, but to include therewith those having a father and mother or a father born in that country, the number thus ascertained indicating the 'race.'" (p. vii.)
- "By means of these figures it was possible to secure statistics of racial descent to use in a sociological way, but not from an industrial standpoint. There are few, if any, States in the Union which have gained as much numerically from the flood of immigration as Massachusetts." (p. 3)
- Includes the following tables:
- Occupations of persons of specified descent by sex with classifications by classes and subdivisions of productive industries.
- Recapitulation of the above, for the State, by classes of occupations only, with percentages.
- Recapitulation for the state, by sex and occupation classes, showing also native born for Massachusetts and "other states," and foreign born by specified countries and "other countries."
Free employment offices in the United States and foreign countries, p. 131-214.
Social and Industrial Condition of the Negro in Massachusetts, p. 217-320.
- "The various subjects treated in this Part are the early history and condition of the negro in Massachusetts, population, occupations, vital statistics, ownership of farms and homes, pauperism and crime, education, and churches and social organizations together with data regarding a recent conference at Tuskegee, Alabama. The presentations are purely statistical in their nature, with only such editorial comment as will serve to introduce or explain the tables. We do not feel that it is within the province of this Department to treat of the social equation of the white and black races, and, therefore, leave to students of racial conditions the opportunity to make their own deductions." (p. 217-218.)
Labor and Industrial Chronology, p. 323-427.
- Strikes and lockouts, industrial changes, workingmen's benefits, wages and hours of labor, labor legislation, trades unions.
Index to parts and subjects, p. 429-436.
^ top1904, Thirty-Fifth. 304p.
Actual weekly earnings, p. 3-78.
The Causes of, high prices, p. 81-130.
Labor and industrial chronology, p. 133-290.
- Strikes and lockouts, industrial changes, workingmen's benefits, wages and hours of labor, labor legislation, trades unions.
Index to Parts and Subjects, p. 291-304.
^ top1905, Thirty-Sixth. 613p.
Industrial education of working girls, p. 3-38.
- "The investigation was undertaken by the National League of "Women Workers, and statistics were obtained by them in the States of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania." (p. vii)
- "The report closes with a description of a trade training school for girls, which was an experiment instituted by the Massachusetts Association of Women Workers." (p. vii)
Cotton manufactures in Massachusetts and the Southern States, p. 41-106.
- "The information obtained brought out prominently the facts that wages paid in the cotton industry were much higher in Massachusetts than in the South, and that the number of children employed in the Southern mills was much greater than in those of Massachusetts." (p. viii)
Old-age pensions, p. 109-150.
Industrial opportunities not yet utilized in Massachusetts, p. 153-302.
Statistics of Manufactures: 1903, 1904, p. 305-374.
Labor and Industrial Chronology, p. 377-602.
- Strikes and lockouts, industrial changes, workingmen's benefits, wages and hours of labor, labor legislation, trades unions.
Index to Parts and Subjects. p. 603-613
^ top1906, Thirty-Seventh. 664p.
The Apprenticeship system, p. 3-86.
Trained and supplemental employees for domestic service, p. 89-124.
- "In January 1897, the Employment Committee of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union formed the Domestic Reform League. The objects of the League are the scientific and careful consideration of present conditions in domestic service; the awakening of the interest of women in the largest aspect of the problem; the recognition by the employer that fair conditions should be given for faithful service; and by the employee, that interested and efficient service must be given in exchange for fair wages and just conditions; and further the recognition by both employer and employee that efficiency should be a standard of wages." (p. 89)
The Incorporation of trade unions, p. 127-244.
Statistics of manufactures. 1904-1905. p. 247-328.
Labor laws of Massachusetts, p. 331-388.
Labor and industrial chronology, p. 391-644.
- Strikes and lockouts, industrial changes, welfare work, wages and hours of labor, and trades unions.
Index to parts and subjects, p. 645-664.
^ top1907, Thirty-Eighth. 663 p.
Strikes and lockouts in Massachusetts for the year ending September 30, 1906, p. 3-48.
Recent British legislation affecting workwomen, p. 51-250.
- Recent British legislation affecting workingmen embracing the report of the British Commission on Trade Disputes and Combinations, a chronological survey of legislation affecting the legal status of trade unions (1824-1906). The text of the principal acts affecting the status of British trade unions, and the British workmen's compensation act.
Industrial opportunities not yet utilized in Massachusetts (Second Report), p. 253-314.
Statistics of manufactures, Comparison for 1905 and 1906, p. 317-412.
First annual report of the state free employment offices, p. 415-468.
Strikes and lockouts in Massachusetts for the year ending September 30, 1907, p. 471-554.
Changes in Rates of wages and hours of labor for the year ending September 30, 1907, p. 557-652.
Index to parts and subjects, p. 655-663.
^ top1908, Thirty-Ninth. 319p.
Strikes and lockouts, p. 3-139.
Labor organizations, p. 143-216.
Changes in rates of wages and hours of labor, p. 219-319.
^ top1909, Fortieth. 404p.
Changes in rates of wages and hours of labor, p. 3-112.
Strikes and lockouts, p. 115-260.
Labor organizations, 263-355.
Carroll Davidson Wright. A Memorial, p. 357-404. Note: nice photo of Wright here.
^ top1910, Forty-First. 333 p.
Prevailing time-rates of wages and hours of labor in selected occupations, p. 3-79.
- "A new feature of this report and presents the current rates of wages paid in the various industries and occupations in different cities and towns of the Commonwealth, together with the generally recognized hours of labor, these rates and hours being as of October 1, 1910." (p. iii)
Strikes and lockouts. p. 83-186.
Living conditions of the wage-earning population in certain cities of Massachusetts, p. 189-333.
^ top1911, Forty-Second. 318p.
Strikes and lockouts, p. 3-68.
Labor organizations, p. 71-116.
Collective agreements between labor unions and employers, p. 119-296.
Appendix: I, National and district systems of collective bargaining in the United States, p. 297-299.
Appendix II, Collective agreements in foreign countries, p. 300-306.
Appendix III, Voluntary arbitration of labor disputes by the State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration in Massachusetts in 1911, p. 307-308.
Appendix IV, Index to collective agreements published in Massachusetts Labor Bulletins, p. 309-317.
^ top1912, Forty-Third. 266p.
The Immigrant population of Massachusetts, p. 3-90.
- This report consists of three parts: Immigrant Aliens Destined for and Emigrant Aliens Departed from Massachusetts, 1912,
Immigrants in Cities and Industries, Foreign-born Population of Massachusetts, 1910.
Labor bibliography, 1912. p. 93-161.
Strikes and lockouts, 1912. p. 165-266.
^ top1913, Forty-Fourth. 453p.
Twelfth annual directory of labor organizations in Massachusetts, 1913. p. 3-57.
Labor legislation in Massachusetts, 1913, with text of legislation for 1912 and cumulative index of the labor laws in effect December 31, 1913, labor legislation in Massachusetts, 1913. p. 61-223.
Fifth annual report on labor organizations. 1912, p. 329-453.
^ topUnion scale of wages and hours of labor in Massachusetts, 1913.
Thirteenth annual directory of labor organizations in Massachusetts, 1914.
Immigrant aliens destined for and emigrant aliens departing from Massachusetts, 1913.
Labor bibliography, 1913.
Industrial home work in Massachusetts.
- The results of an inquiry made in co-operation with the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, Department of Research.
Action affecting labor during the legislative session of 1914.
Wages and hours of labor in the paper and wood pulp industry.
^ topHandbook of labor laws of Massachusetts.
Sixth annual report on labor organizations, 1913.
Fourteenth annual directory of labor organizations in Massachusetts, 1915.
Fifth annual report on union scale of wages and hours of labor in Massachusetts, 1914.
Immigrant aliens destined for and emigrant aliens departing from Massachusetts, 1914.
Wages and hours of labor in the manufacture of paper products in Massachusetts.
Labor legislation in Massachusetts, 1915.
Labor bibliography, 1914, Seventh annual report on labor organizations, 1914.
^ topFifteenth annual directory of labor organizations in Massachusetts, 1916.
Sixth annual report on union scale of wages and hours of labor in Massachusetts, 1915.
Rates of wages and hours of labor in street and electric railway service in Massachusetts.
Labor legislation in Massachusetts, 1916, Labor injunctions in Massachusetts.
Eight annual report on labor organizations, 1915.
^ topSixteenth annual directory of labor organizations in Massachusetts, 1918.
Seventh annual report on union scale of wages and hours of labor in Massachusetts, 1916.
Collective agreements between employers and labor organizations in Massachusetts, 1916.
Labor legislation in Massachusetts, 1915, 1916, and 1917.
^ topSeventeenth annual directory of labor organizations in Massachusetts, 1918.
Eighth annual report on union scale of wages and hours of labor in Massachusetts, 1917.
Labor legislation in Massachusetts, 1918.
Statistics of labor organizations in Massachusetts, 1916 and 1917.
^ topEighteenth annual directory of labor organizations in Massachusetts, 1919.
Ninth annual report on union scale of wages and hours of labor in Massachusetts, 1918.
Labor legislation in Massachusetts, 1915-1919, inclusive.
Opinions of the attorney-general on pending legislation, 1919.
Recommendations concerning labor in the inaugural address of the governor.
Table showing disposition of statutes, 1915-1919, inclusive, cited herein.
Index to the labor legislation of 1915-1919, inclusive.
^ topNineteenth annual directory of labor organizations in Massachusetts, 1920.
Tenth annual report on union scale of wages and hours of labor in Massachusetts, 1919.
Wages and hours of labor in the metal trades in Massachusetts, 1914-1919.
^ topTwentieth annual directory of labor organizations in Massachusetts, 1921.
Eleventh annual report on union scale of wages and hours of labor in Massachusetts, 1920.
Statistics of labor organizations in Massachusetts, 1918-1920.
^ topTwenty-first annual directory of labor organizations in Massachusetts, 1922.
Twelfth annual report on union scale of wages and hours of labor in Massachusetts, 1919.
Population and resources of Cape Cod, 121p.
- Work of the Provincetown Tercentenary Commission
- Changes in population and industrial pursuits
- The Fisheries of Barnstable county
- Charms of the Cape for Summer residence
- Descriptive statements relative to the several towns
- The Cape Cod canal
- Statistical tables
- Bibliography
sequence 209 cranberry scooping on Cape Cod
sequence 215, three images, Cape cod strawberries…, duck farm in Orleans, reclaimed marshland at Wellfleet
sequence 221, stacking salt hay
sequence 231, fishing boats in Provincetown harbor
sequence 251, good country roads make possible delightful automobile trips on Cape Cod
sequence 255, An old Cape Cod house, suggesting space and comfort under minimum roof
^ topThirteenth annual report on Union scale of wages and hours of labor in Massachusetts, 1922.
Twenty-second annual directory of labor organizations in Massachusetts, 1923.
Statistics of labor organizations in Massachusetts, 1921 and 1922.
^ topUnion rates of wages and hours of labor in Massachusetts, 1924.
Twenty-third annual directory of labor organizations in Massachusetts, 1924.
Trend of employment and earnings in representative manufacturing establishments.
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