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Download full textWomen's Bureau (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1991
This short profile of the trends in the employment of women in skilled trades and other manual occupations during the 5-year period between 1983 and 1988 shows that the number of women in these occupations rose only modestly. Three tables chart the total numbers of persons employed in the trades by sex for the years 1983 and 1988; persons employed…
Descriptors: Adults, Apprenticeships, Blacks, Demography
Talbot, Winthrop – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1916
"Illiterates" are those who have not learned to write in any language. This is the definition on which American and most foreign statistics of illiteracy are based, because the percentage of those who can read but can not write is so small that it may be ignored. The test of writing one's name and ordinary words is simple, easily…
Descriptors: Working Class, Immigrants, Adult Literacy, Illiteracy
