STATISTICS FROM A SURVEY FOR THE COMMISSIONER OF INDUSTRIAL AND LABOR STATISTICS REPORT, 1892
[pp. 150-151]
Women Wage Workers by Occupation 1892
Out of a total of 2,583 there are 115 who cannot read and 124 Who cannot write the English language, or between four and five per cent. They are found in seventeen different industries which are given, together with the total number at work in each industry, in the following table:
| a. | b. | c. | d. | |
| Cotton mills | 52 | 19 | 19 | 36 |
| Wig making | 3 | 1 | 1 | 33 |
| Junk shops | 32 | 9 | 10 | 28 |
| Hotel work | 173 | 39 | 40 | 22 |
| Boarding house work | 43 | 9 | 10 | 21 |
| Family work | 82 | 9 | 11 | 11 |
| Laundry work | 95 | 8 | 10 | 8 |
| Fish and fruit canning | 29 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| Match factory | 47 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| Cigar making | 19 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Saloon work | 84 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| Dress making | 179 | 5 | 5 | 3 |
| Box making | 36 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Shirt making | 67 | 1 | 1 | 1.5 |
| Shoe making | 401 | 4 | 4 | 1 |
| Tailoring | 155 | 1 | 1 | |
| Saleswomen | 267 | 1 |
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a. Number at work; b. Cannot read English
c. Cannot write English
d. Per cent who cannot read English
The religious preferences as given by the 2,793 who made returns are as follows:
| Catholics | 856 |
| Methodists | 424 |
| Congregationalists | 352 |
| Baptists | 290 |
| No preference | 288 |
| Universalists | 187 |
| Free Baptists | 146 |
| Episcopalians | 106 |
| Any Protestant | 35 |
| Presbyterians | 31 |
| Unitarians | 28 |
| Adventists | 15 |
| Spiritualists | 14 |
| Swendenborgians | 6 |
| Friends | 5 |
| Lutherans | 4 |
| Danish | 3 |
| Jew | 1 |
| Christian | 1 |
| Salvation Army | 1 |
| Total | 2793 |
Additional resources
Annual reports of State agencies, in the published Laws of Maine for various years, found at the State Law and Legislative Library, the Maine State Archives, and frequently at major Maine college and university libraries.
See also a discussion of the status of Maine women in the 1874 OPINIONS OF THE JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT, and in the LIST OF EMPLOYMENTS elsewhere in the 1892 report.