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4865
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A report released on Labor Day 2000, by The Common Sense Foundation, a Raleigh-based Think Tank, compares labor in North Carolina to the other states. Among worker areas compared are wages and benefits; income and poverty; workplace inequality; and occupational safety. The report ranks the state 30th in the country. On the positive side, workplace injuries are down.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 17 Issue 40, Oct 2000,
p19,21, il
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16856
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Stereotypes of antebellum white society perpetuate the misrepresentation of a two-tier system; rich estate, slave-holders and destitute whites. Upon further review, there was a greater complexity amongst the white population and the earliest scholar to acknowledge this was Daniel Robinson Hundley in SOCIAL RELATIONS IN OUR SOUTHERN STATES(1860). A faction of these folk were landless whites, a group of people who filled a great range of necessary jobs like coopers, carpenters, shoemakers, fishermen, etc.
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34595
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This article discusses Carteret County Labor Statistics for the year 1893 as recorded for the State of North Carolina. The recorder, B.R. Lacy, believed labor statistics were vital to understanding the needs and services of working class North Carolinians. Interesting details of labor statistics in Carteret County in 1893 include a decrease in farming and farm enterprises and limited upward mobility for manual laborers.
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