A Vocational Survey of Minneapolis, 1913 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from A Vocational Survey of Minneapolis, 1913 A year ago a group of men and women interested in the welfare of boys and girls, and somewhat acquainted with conditions that confront them upon their entrance into industrial life, decided that it was time to make a survey of the city. There had been much talk of training for the trades in the public schools; and apparently there was reasonable ground for this advocacy. Moreover, the Civic and Commerce Association reported at the time of the "Made in Minneapolis" display that 40,000 persons were now engaged in manufacture in this city. This was not at wide variance with the general statistics of the 1910 census, which shows that our national population has increased 21%, but indicates a phenomenal figure for the growth of manufacture: an increase of 40.3% in those engaged in making things. It would be near the truth to say that about 40% of those in gainful occupations in Minneapolis are in manufacture and mechanical pursuits, and nearly the same number in trade and transportation. It was further evident from statistics that the skilled craftsmen of this city were divided among natives and foreign born in the ratio of one to six, and it was also clear that the intelligent classes from Northern Europe, - the Germans, Scandinavians, and English, - were not crossing the ocean to find here their future homes. Southeastern Europe was being emptied of its ignorant population, accustomed to a standard of life little better than that of the cattle with which they housed. These people had lived in a far-away industrial epoch, where implements were yet primitive and modern trades and machines unknown. It was absurd to look to these people to find trained workers to take the places of the five per cent who for one reason or another leave the ranks of skilled artisans every year or to find the other three per cent needed to do the added work of a rapidly growing community. What more natural than to turn to the public schools and ask of them a supply of skill? So here, as in most cities, there was much talk of trade training in our schools, and a rather aggressive insistence that this new work be undertaken. Was there a real demand? or was this a new educational fad sweeping across the country, to be lost in the great abyss of educational nostrums, along with vertical writing and basketry? That was to be determined. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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