STATUS OF IMMIGRANTS IN INDUSTRIES 155 
A conception of the earning possibilities of the im 
migrant women may be gathered from the table be 
low, which shows the amount of weekly earnings of 
57,712 female wage-earners 
who were 
eighteen years 
of age or over: 
Total 
Average Amount of 
Weekly Earnings 
Number 
Native-Born of Native Father— 
White • 
9,019 
$7.91 
Native-Born of Foreign Father. 
15,930 
8.11 
Total Native-Born 
24,966* 
8.04 
Total Foreign-Born 
32,746 
7.90 
Grand Total 
57,712 
7.96 
* 17 negro women wage-earners are included in this total. 
The foregoing statement makes it clearly evident 
that the weekly earnings for the women industrial 
workers are much lower than those for the men. The 
average amount earned each week by the native Amer 
ican white women was $7.91, as against $8.11 for 
native-born female wage-earners of foreign father, 
and $7.90 for immigrant women, the lower earnings 
of the American women being due (1) to their re 
fusal to do the disagreeable class of work which im 
migrant women accept, and (2) to their inability or 
disinclination to work such long hours as the foreign- 
born females, in the case of certain piece-rate occu 
pations, as, for example, the clothing industry. The 
earnings of the members of the races of old immigra 
tion from Great Britain and northern Europe range 
higher than those of representatives of races of recent 
arrival in the United States, which causes the show 
ing for the total native-born to be higher than that of 
the total foreign-born. 
During the same week that the foregoing figures,