Circular

Circular
Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher:
Total Pages: 134
Release: 1917
Genre:
ISBN:

Eleventh Census of the United States, 1890

Eleventh Census of the United States, 1890
Author: United States. Census Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1166
Release: 1897
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

Includes reports on population, housing, agriculture, education, language, employment, crime, manufacturing, commerce, geography, territories and possessions, vital statistics and life tables.

Carroll Wright and Labor Reform

Carroll Wright and Labor Reform
Author: James Leiby
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1960
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780674098008

Contemporaries of Carroll D. Wright (1840-1909) lived through the transformation of American society by the industrial revolution. For the most part they thought the transformation represented growth and progress, but many also found occasion for doubt and fear in its consequences. Their anxieties collected around the notions of a "labor problem" and "labor reform." Whether from hope or fear, people felt a need for statistical information. On this popular demand Wright built his career as statistical expert and renowned master of "labor statistics." His investigations during thirty-two years of government service (1873-1905) gave form to contemporary ideas and set precedents for modern procedures, as in his seminal studies of wages, prices, and strikes. In telling how Wright took up this unprecedented career, Mr. Leiby shows the importance of Wright's early years and relates his work to the politics and religion of his time as well as to its social science. In this perspective, the history of the labor bureaus and their voluminous reports take on their original human purposes and meaning.