Many private employment agencies in their relation to the homes of the United States act as brokers. The fees charged both the employer and the employee are generally exorbitant. The service rendered by them is on the whole poor. The harm inflicted upon society by many of them is irreparable. Public control of employment agencies has great possibilities for social betterment.
Elizabeth Ross Haynes
FOOTNOTES:
[A] This thesis was submitted in 1923 in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Political Science of Columbia University.
[1] Bruce, Economic History of Virginia in the 17th Century, Vol. I, p. 573.
[2] Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia.
[3] The following works were found helpful in preparing this dissertation: W. A. Crossland, Industrial Conditions Among Negroes in St. Louis (Studies in Social Economics, Washington Univ., Vol. I, No. 1, St. Louis, 1914); Isabel Eaton, Special Report on Domestic Service in The Philadelphia Negro by W. E. B. DuBois (Philadelphia, 1899); George E. Haynes, The Negro at Work in New York City (New York, 1912); Frances A. Kellor, Out of Work; Knickerbocker Press (New York, 1904); W. I. King, Employment, Hours and Earnings in the United States, 1920-1922; Asa E. Martin, Our Negro Population (Kansas City, 1913); Monthly Labor Review (U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1919-1920); Ruth Reed, The Negro Women of Gainsville, Georgia (1921—A Master's Essay—Phelps Stokes Fund Scholarship); Report of U. S. Industrial Commission, Domestic Service, Vol. XIV; I. M. Rubinow, Depth and Breadth of the Servant Problem (McClures Magazine, Vol. 34, 1909-1910); Lucy M. Salmon, Domestic Service (New York, 1901).
[4] Report of the U. S. Industrial Commission, Vol. XIV. Domestic Service, p. 745.
[5] Salmon, Lucy M., Domestic Service, p. 109.
[6] Eaton, Isabel, Special Report on Domestic Service in The Philadelphia Negro, by W. E. B. DuBois, Philadelphia, 1889, p. 480.