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Burlington Self-Survey on Human Relations: Final report, 1950

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Taken together as a group of inter-dependent business functions, the manufacturing, transporting, selling and service enterprises form a pattern descriptive of the typical commercial business area. 
   A more detailed breakdown of local industries is furnished in Table XXXV, carrying a distribution of specific types of industry which employed 200 or more persons in 1940. Those firms employed 6.793 persons, conprising approximately 83 per cent of the total Burlington labor force in 1940. The types of activity are quite diverse, and they show patterns simular to the large groupings above. The largest concentrations of workers were in furniture manufacturing (12.25); railroad operations (10.05); and wholesale and retail trade (24.25)
   The firms covered by our sample bear a striking resemblance to the types of industry and business shown in the distributions of the census data. In this respect, our sample is quite representative of the general field. It contains, however, a larger proportion of firms in wholesale and retail trade than the proportion of workers engaged in this activity in 1940. At the same time, it expresses the high concentration of workers in trade activities represented in the 1940 distribution of fires employing 200 or more persons. 
   Although we do not have comparable figures from the census date, the size of firms covered in our sample gives additional information as to the character of business and individual firms of Burlington. These data are summarized in Table XXXV. Almost half (45.25) of the firms covered have less than ten employees; three fourths have less than forty employees, and approximately ninety percent of the firms have less than a hundred.

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63 Taken together as a group of inter-dependent business functions, the manufacturing, transporting, selling and service enterprises form a pattern descriptive of the typical commercial business area. A more detailed breakdown of local industries is furnished in Table XXXV, carrying a distribution of specific types of industry which employed 200 or more persons in 1940. Those firms employed 6.793 persons, conprising approximately 83 per cent of the total Burlington labor force in 1940. The types of activity are quite diverse, and they show patterns simular to the large groupings above. The largest concentrations of workers were in furniture manufacturing (12.25); railroad operations (10.05); and wholesale and retail trade (24.25) The firms covered by our sample bear a striking resemblance to the types of industry and business shown in the distributions of the census data. In this respect, our sample is quite representative of the general field. It contains, however, a larger proportion of firms in wholesale and retail trade than the proportion of workers engaged in this activity in 1940. At the same time, it expresses the high concentration of workers in trade activities represented in the 1940 distribution of fires employing 200 or more persons. Although we do not have comparable figures from the census date, the size of firms covered in our sample gives additional information as to the character of business and individual firms of Burlington. These data are summarized in Table XXXV. Almost half (45.25) of the firms covered have less than ten employees; three fourths have less than forty employees, and approximately ninety percent of the firms have less than a hundred.