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Burlington Self-Survey on Human Relations: Final report, 1950
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70 (Levels of Utilization) A key factor of employment opportunity concerns the levels of job performance that the Negro workers occupy and are permitted to aspire to obtaining. Our data are inadequate, in this respect, for they do not indicate, from the firms themselves, the types of jobs that Negro workers actually are holding. The data from the coverage of Negro families, however, provide a useful reference. In addition, the coverage of firms does offer an expression of attitude on the part of the employers as to their degree of satisfaction with Negro employees at levels of job performance, ranging from the unskilled to administrative and professional categories. Approximately six out of every ten Negro family heads were employed in common labor and service occupations; 16 per cent were in the category of craftsmen and foremen, and 7 per cent professionals or semi professionals. Since this group contains the more experienced and mature workers, the probability is that the picture is somewhat more favorable than would obtain for the Negro labor force at large, containing more women and the younger unmarried males just entering the labor market. In this larger labor group, the proportion of unskilled workers would most likely increase and the proportion of skilled craftsmen decrease. At any rate, the preponderance of workers is in the unskilled job classifications. there were no semi skilled operatives in the sample. The typical experience of Burlington firms with the Negro workers would therefore seem to be at unskilled levels. The response of firms as to their degree of satisfaction with
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70 (Levels of Utilization) A key factor of employment opportunity concerns the levels of job performance that the Negro workers occupy and are permitted to aspire to obtaining. Our data are inadequate, in this respect, for they do not indicate, from the firms themselves, the types of jobs that Negro workers actually are holding. The data from the coverage of Negro families, however, provide a useful reference. In addition, the coverage of firms does offer an expression of attitude on the part of the employers as to their degree of satisfaction with Negro employees at levels of job performance, ranging from the unskilled to administrative and professional categories. Approximately six out of every ten Negro family heads were employed in common labor and service occupations; 16 per cent were in the category of craftsmen and foremen, and 7 per cent professionals or semi professionals. Since this group contains the more experienced and mature workers, the probability is that the picture is somewhat more favorable than would obtain for the Negro labor force at large, containing more women and the younger unmarried males just entering the labor market. In this larger labor group, the proportion of unskilled workers would most likely increase and the proportion of skilled craftsmen decrease. At any rate, the preponderance of workers is in the unskilled job classifications. there were no semi skilled operatives in the sample. The typical experience of Burlington firms with the Negro workers would therefore seem to be at unskilled levels. The response of firms as to their degree of satisfaction with
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