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290 An American Dilemma
TABLE 3
Number and Proportion or Nonwhite Workers in Selected Industries, 1940;
AND Neoroes as a Percentage or the Gainpul Workers, 1930
—
in the South
Nonwhite Employed Percentage of
Workers in 1940 Negroes Among
Industry Percentage GainfulWorkers
Number of All Races** in 1930**
1. Coalmining
2. Crude petroleum and natural gas produc-
tion
3. Construction
4. Food and kindred products
5. Textile-mill products; apparel and other
fabricated textile products
6. Chemicals and allied products
7. Logging, sawmills and planing mills; furni-
ture, store fixtures and miscellaneous
wooden goods
8. Paper and allied products
9. Printing, publishing and allied industries
10. Iron and steel and their products; machin-
ery; transportation equipment, except
automobiles
11. Automobiles and automobile equipment;
motor vehicles and accessories, retailing,
and filling stations; automobile storage,
rental, and repair services
12. Railroads (including railroad repair shops
and railway express service)
13. Trucking service
14. Utilities
15. Wholesale trade; food and dairy products
stores and milk retailing; other retail
trade
16. Finance, insurance and real estate
17. Professional and related services
18. Government
19. Hotels and lodging places; eating and
drinking places
20. Laundering, cleaning and dyeing services
21 . Domestic service; miscellaneous personal
services
34>949 15-9 19.4
1,026 0.9 1.2
108,685 17.8 22.2
37,390 15.8 19.1
26,134 4.1 6.6
33,101 23.5 19.2
156,468 36.8 37*6
9,802 19.1 17.8
5,239 5.0 4.5
40,169 14.9 18.5
45.85s 12.4 I 1.7
6a,997 21.0 25.0
15,856 15.6 (c)
14,678 12.5 (c)
146,402 10.6 10.4
31,98a 1 1.5 5-2
136,500 16.8 15.0
29,884 5-4 (c)
129,862 32.1 39*8
43,973 34-6 40.1
837,687 70.9 76.7
Sources: Fifteenth Census of the United States: iQjo, Population, Vol. 3. Part x, p. 33; Sixteenth Census of
the United Stales: 1040, Population, Second Series, State Table ifta and 18b.
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