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Census years 1947, 1954 and 1958 · the measures change
The postwar tables count differently. From 1947 the city tables drop value of products for places, and report all employees alongside production workers, with value added carrying the story. Mishawaka in 1947: 38 establishments; 9,157 employees in all, of whom 7,271 were production workers; salaries and wages together $26,900,000, of which production workers' wages were $20,277,000; value added by manufacture $41,723,000 — three times 1919's, in the inflated postwar dollar, on a wage force the table no longer separates the old way. (The volume's money is stated in thousands as printed.) In 1954 the count reads: 58 establishments; 7,675 employees, 5,911 of them production workers who worked 11,960,000 man-hours; payroll $34,999,000, production wages $24,841,000; value added $63,295,000; new capital expenditures $2,461,000. The 1954 volume's 1947 comparative columns agree with the 1947 volume's own row, and its printed 1950 population for the city is 32,913. Between the two censuses the city's factory employment fell by some fifteen hundred while its value added rose by half — the first full statement, in the federal count, of the divergence that governs the rest of the series: fewer hands, more value.
1958 prints here at one remove, and says so. The 1958 census volume's own city row for Mishawaka was not read from its own page — the volume's text layer carries no legible line for the city, and its page was not identified; the full row stands named in this addendum's companion note as a remainder for the next pull. What does print first-hand is the pair of figures the next census carried back for 1958, in the 1963 volume's adjusted comparative columns, read from that volume's page: all employees 7,589, and value added by manufacture, adjusted, $69,794,000. Two figures only, at the strength of the page they were read from, and no more is claimed for 1958 here.
Sources:
- Census of Manufactures: 1947, Vol. III (Area Statistics), Table 2 — statistics for places of 10,000 inhabitants or more: Mishawaka, p. 201, read from the page image (money in thousands of dollars as printed).
- Census of Manufactures: 1954, Vol. III (Area Statistics), Table 3 — general statistics for states, metropolitan areas, counties and selected cities: Indiana, Mishawaka, p. 113-5, read from the page image (money in thousands of dollars as printed).
- Census of Manufactures: 1963, Vol. III (Area Statistics), Table 4: the 1958 adjusted comparative columns in Mishawaka's row, Indiana, p. 15-8, read from the page image.