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Excerpt from A Seasonal Industry: A Study of the Millinery, Trade in New York During that early period we realized that a thorough study of so variable and irregular a trade would require a larger amount of field work than we had yet accomplished, and especially some authoritative data from payrolls. The interviews with the workers and employers were continued in 1911 and 1912, concurrently with investigations of other trades, and in 1914, as has been already explained, the opportunity to study payrolls was secured through the Factory Investigating Com mission.* In planning this payroll study we rec ognized that, because of the seasonal character of the trade, the facts needed in a legislative inquiry concerning the income of the workers were not the rates of wages in a selected week but the earnings week by week throughout the year, and the changes in the size of the force and the total pay roll from season to season. We proposed, therefore, to make an intensive study of a few typical shops rather than a cursory inquiry into a larger number. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.