Our boys : a study of the 245,000 sixteen, seventeen and eighteen year old employed boys of the state of New York . s Employment managers in concerns employing large numbers ofboys are very much interested in the proper training and advance-ment of boys. Boys of these ages, however, unless they receivecounsel and s^uidance from outside sources are often retained with 198 Our Boys difficulty by such concerns because the uncounseled boy fails tounderstand the value of the opportunity afforded by these concernsfor training and advancement and is easily influenced to give up ajob of this character
Our boys : a study of the 245,000 sixteen, seventeen and eighteen year old employed boys of the state of New York . s Employment managers in concerns employing large numbers ofboys are very much interested in the proper training and advance-ment of boys. Boys of these ages, however, unless they receivecounsel and s^uidance from outside sources are often retained with 198 Our Boys difficulty by such concerns because the uncounseled boy fails tounderstand the value of the opportunity afforded by these concernsfor training and advancement and is easily influenced to give up ajob of this character by such reasons as a slight increase in wages,easier work, shorter hours, to work with a boy friend, etc. Sixteen, Seventeen and Eighteen l^ear Old Employed Boys XUMBER OF J0I5S HeLt>TABLE No. 18 —SUMMARY FOR NEW YORK STATE GROUPS Greater New over 25, under 25,000Villages over 5,000. 10 + Totapercent Our Boys 199 ^fla JBSI. 6? 1 s- S- .. § o § > -5 I 1» *» ** r-l t^ T^ W^ W* 200 Our Boys CHAPTER XIX The Length of Time on the Present JobFifty percent of the boys held their jobs for less than six months Chart No. 19 and table No. 19, in the text, and tables ^o. 19-A,19-B and 19-C show the percent of boj^s holding jobs for varionsperiods of time. The term six months means from montlisto months; nine months means from months to , etc. The information on the above mentioned chart andtables clearly indicates that regardless of the size of the communityabout forty percent of the boys held jobs for less than months,that about sixty percent of the boys held jobs for less than The information on this ta1)le should be studied in con-nection with the information in tables No. 18 and No. 20. Underproper guidance and direction it is altogether likely that man
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