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Profitable vocations for boys

The industrial situation demands an increase in the vocational content of the school curriculum. Any process of reconstruction must necessarily be slow.

 The teachers can, meanwhile, do much in their classes towards giving a boy about to leave school a general .survey of the field of occupations, helping him to form a definite purpose, showing him how to investigate questions which deal with the choice of a career and the best methods of preparation for success along with particular lines, directing his attention to the vocational training facilities of his community, showing him how to utilize them and placing before him an index to vocational literature. 

From this rapidly accumulating literature, there will be formed ultimately some definite rules for the scientific management of the individual by the aid of which the prospective worker may be enabled to choose wisely, prepare thoroughly and advance himself rapidly.

 The reader of this literature cannot escape the conviction that the apparent maze which leads from the entrance gateway of the many employments that are open to a reasonable degree of prosperity is not as complex as it seems and that there never was a time when the well- prepared and determined worker was so sure of a comfortable living as now. On the other hand, it was never so easy for the thoughtless to drift into such hope-less industrial situations. 

An effort has been made to provide in this book a brief summary of the available information relating to the conditions for admission to the chief gainful occupations and to present in suggestive forms the best methods by which the workers may prepare themselves and secure advancement. The earlier editions of the book were submitted to those who had first-hand information about industrial conditions, and their commendations were generous, and abundant evidence has been supplied by teachers who have tried it for class use and by counsellors in social centres and by directors of boys' clubs that the book well serves the purposes for which it was designed. 

Some cintents

I. The Inevitable Conflict 1

II. The Peeliminakt Sdrvet 5

III. A Brief Self-Examination 11

. Choosing an Employee 18

V. Finding the Opening 25

"VI. Getting Ahead 34

VII. Scientific Management 44

VIII. Labor Laws and Labor Contracts 53

IX. Prom Fourteen to Sixteen 59

X. Manual Labor 65

XI. Domestic and Personal Service 72

XII. Guardians of Life and Property 76

XIII. Transportation 84

XIV. Factory Work 93

XV. laundry Work and the Chemical Industries 102

XVID. Textiles and Clothing 106

XVII. The Printing Trades Ill

XVIII. The Metal Trades 124

XIX. The Electrical Workers 140

XX. The Building Trades 143

XXI. The "Woodworking Industries 149

XXII. Some Changing Trades 152

XXIII. Office Work 154

XXrv. Stenography and Typewriting 165

XXV. Salesmanship 173

XX"VT. Advertising 180

XXVII. Banking, Brokerage and Insurance 184

XXVIII. Some New Business Professions 189

XXIX. The Civil Service 195

ZXX. Teaching 200

the book details :

Author: Eli Witwer Weaver

Publication date: 1915

Company: New York and Chicago, The A.S. Barnes company

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