Occupations

The statistics of occupations in the United States since 1850, 1870, 1910, and 1914 show cross-sections of our civilization and tell a story of the changes that area taking place. They show the changes in family life, the growth of recreation, the development of agencies of diffusion of knowledge, changes in our artistic, intellectual, and moral life, new habits and necessities, old habits that are being lost, the great growth of manufacturing and the decline of agriculture, the growing dependence on the machine, the rise of the higher-class services, and the decline of lower types of the service occupations

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