ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the history of the Negro breadwinner outside agriculture and attempt to ascertain where; he has entered industry or has remained unemployed. White workers came more and more to resent working with Negroes, according to what all older Negroes and whites tell the observer. The only way of definitely lifting a certain type of work from the category of "Negro jobs" was to get the Negroes out of it. Since Negroes, during the 'thirties, were driven out of agriculture at a more rapid rate than were the white farm workers in the South, there is nothing surprising in the fact that the large and middle-sized cities in the South showed a greater increase of the Negro than of the white population. Southern industry was more "saturated" with unskilled Negro labor than Northern industry. Almost half of all unskilled male workers outside agriculture in the South were Negroes.
