Monthly Labor Review, Volume 88U.S. Government Printing Office, 1965 Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews. |
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1963 Annual average AFL-CIO agreement allied products areas bargaining benefits Bureau of Labor Census cents changes cities Class I railroads construction Consumer Price Index contract Costume jewelry Durable economic employed employees employment end of table expenditures Fabricated metal families farm Federal Food and kindred footnotes at end Grain mill income increase indus January July June June May Apr kindred products labor force Labor Statistics layoff leather products machinery man-hour manpower ment million Monthly Labor Review Nondurable nonwhite occupations operators Ordnance and accessories paid Paperboard pension percent period Petroleum refining Pipeline transportation plans plants plated ware production workers programs regions related products retail trade retirement Revised series salary Sept Textile tion trade union Transportation equipment U.S. Department ucts unem unemployed union vacation wage Washington weeks women wood products
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Page 166 - South: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Page 167 - I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas. Not indeed, immediately, but after a certain interval; for in the field of economic and political philosophy there are not many who are influenced by new theories after they are 25 or 30 years of age, so that the ideas which civil servants and politicians and even agitators apply to current events are not likely to be the newest. But, soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests,...
Page 94 - These series are based upon establishment reports which cover all full- and part-time employees in nonagricultural establishments who worked during, or received pay for, any part of the pay period ending nearest the 15th of the month.
Page 212 - ... with a job but not at work" — those who did not work and were not looking for work but had a job or business from which they were temporarily absent because of vacation, illness, industrial dispute, bad weather, or lay-off with definite instructions to return to work within 30 days of lay-off.
Page 8 - I960 monthly survey of the labor force, conducted for the Bureau of Labor Statistics by the Bureau of the Census through Its Current Population Survey.
Page 488 - PI measures the average change in prices of goods and services purchased by urban wage-earner and clerical-worker families. 1 Beginning January 1964, the Consumer Price Index structure has been revised to reflect buying patterns of wage earners and clerical workers In the I960's.
Page 11 - Professional, technical, and kindred workers Farmers and farm managers Managers, officials, and proprietors, except farm Clerical and kindred workers...
Page 46 - Hourly earnings exclude premium pay for overtime and for work on weekends, holidays, and late shifts.
Page 301 - There is thus a total of 50 million persons— of whom 22 million are young children— who live within the bleak circle of poverty or at least hover around its edge.
Page 308 - That a man risks poverty for his family when he does not or cannot work all the time might be expected, but to end the year with so inadequate an income, even when he has worked all week every week, often makes his efforts seem hopeless.