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THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY
SUMMARY OF FACTORY INSPECTION IN THE GARMENT TRADES. I. CHICAGO AND COOK COUNTY, 1893-9.'
Year
Number of Shops Inspected
Females under Sixteen
Malts under Sixteen
Total Chil- dren under Sixteen
Females ayer Sixteen
Males over Sixteen
Total Employes
1893
704
595
3,617
2,611
6,823
1894
1895 1896 1897 1898
1,413 1,715 2,378
3,688
2,040
i.Vs'i
1, 060 1,415
126
128 323
721
1,307 1,188
1,738 1,624
5,912 7,780
7,181
16,580 11,015
4,469 5,817 6,383 13,647 13,072
11,102 14,904 M,752 3L965 25,711
1899
3,674
1,847
298
2,145
18,332
15,376
35,853
II. CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, 1 898.=
Number
Females
Males
Total Chil-
Females
Males
of Shops Inspected
under Sixteen
under Sixteen
dren under Sixteen
over Sixteen
over
Sixteen
Employes
Chicago
2,040
1,624
11,015
13,072
25,711
New York city
5,532
592
266
858
29,938
40,081
70,877
N. Y. state and city
8,920
1,219
656
1,875
45,785
55,884
103,544
III. CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, l8g8. 3
Total Number of Employes in all Industries
Total Number of Employes in Garment Trades
Percentage of Garm't Workers of all Employes
Chicago
251,556
25,711
12.2 percent
Illinois
351,057
25,711
7.3
New York state . . .
700 41 <?
103. ^44
14.8 "
The work started in Illinois with Mrs. Florence Kelley as chief inspector. The falling off in the number of shops vis- ited in 1898 was due to increased work of the inspectors in other lines. The Illinois reports for 1897 an ^ l %9% rurn i sn a few other interesting facts. In 1897, 50 per cent, of the 3,688 shops were in tenements and 50 per cent, in shop buildings ; 8 per cent, were in basements ; 24, or ^ of I per cent., were over sheds or stables; 685, or i8 per cent., were in living-rooms;
1 See Illinois State Factory Reports, 1893-9 ; Report for 1898, p. 13.
See New York State Factory Report for 1898, p. 41.
3 See Illinois Report for 1898, p. 13, and New York Report for 1898, pp. 19, 41.
