E-text prepared by Jeannie Howse, Suzanne Shell, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 24712-h.htm or 24712-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/4/7/1/24712/24712-h/24712-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/4/7/1/24712/24712-h.zip) +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has | | been preserved. | | | | This ebook has some very wide tables which might be better | | displayed in the html version. | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For | | a complete list, please see the end of this document. | | | +------------------------------------------------------------+ Studies in History, Economics and Public Law Edited by the Faculty of Political Science of Columbia University Volume XLIX Number 3 Whole Number 124 THE NEGRO AT WORK IN NEW YORK CITY A Study in Economic Progress by GEORGE EDMUND HAYNES, Ph.D. Sometime Fellow of the Bureau of Social Research, New York School of Philanthropy; Professor of Social Science in Fisk University [Illustration] New York Columbia University Longmans, Green & Co., Agents London: P.S. King & Son 1912 Copyright, 1912 by George Edmund Haynes PREFACE This study was begun as one of the several researches of the Bureau of Social Research of the New York School of Philanthropy, largely at the suggestion of Dr. Samuel McCune Lindsay, the director, to whose interest, advice and sympathy its completion is largely due. Sincere thanks are due the Bureau for making the investigation possible. The material was gathered between January, 1909, and January, 1910, except about four weeks in August, 1909, during the time that I was pursuing studies at the School of Philanthropy and at Columbia University. The investigation necessarily involved many questions concerning the personal affairs of many Negroes of New York and it is a pleasant duty to acknowledge the unvarying cheerfulness with which they rendered assistance in securing the facts.