ABSTRACT
A serious analysis of the socio-economic structure of any community must be based on reliable statistical data. The changes that have taken place in the economic structure of the community have had notable effects on its social structure. Thus, the economic advancement has brought about a vast decline in the Jewish working class, auguring the possibility of its virtual elimination. The Jew represents the 'typical' individual who has adjusted himself successfully to the economic and social conditions of modern Western society. Jewish entrepreneurs have imaginatively seized upon ‘the new needs of a growing industrial population’, and the latter benefited by being enabled to purchase good quality and reasonably-priced clothing, footwear, and other articles. At the same time as, Jewish workers began to leave the smaller workshops and joined the large-scale factories, the interests and objects of Jew and Gentile became identical and ‘this led to the eventual amalgamation of Jewish and non-Jewish unions into the national organizations of today.
