From: Yet another tale of two cities: Buenos Aires and Chicago
Total employment | Share of total manufacturing employment (%) | Share of total city population (%) | Value added per worker (1914 US $) | Capital per worker (1914 US $) | |
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Top five industries in Chicago (by employment) | |||||
Clothing, men’s, including shirts | 38,370 | 10.75 | 1.85 | $1191.50 | $1023.20 |
Foundry: and machine-shop products | 36,868 | 10.33 | 1.78 | $1426.24 | $2625.67 |
Priming and Publishing | 33,439 | 9.37 | 1.61 | $1702.41 | $1513.60 |
Slaughtering and meat packing | 27,147 | 7.61 | 1.31 | $1576.51 | $4566.25 |
Lumber and timber products | 11,680 | 3.27 | 0.56 | $1099.02 | $1628.57 |
Top five industries in Buenos Aires (by employment) | |||||
Dressing | 35,731 | 23.93 | 2.26 | $568 | $763 |
Metallurgy’ and related | 16,243 | 10.88 | 1.03 | $727 | $1254 |
Weaving, leathers, furs, fiber, yam and fabrics | 9260 | 6.20 | 0.58 | $665 | $1201 |
Bakeries | 8500 | 5.69 | 0.54 | $625 | $516 |
Printing press and lithographies | 6644 | 4.45 | 0.42 | $877 | $1174 |