MONTHLY

LABOR REVIEW

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
LAWRENCE R. KLEIN, Éditor

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CONTENTS

JANUARY 1947, Vol. 64, No. 1

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Special articles:

Nature and extent of frictional unemployment.

Trends in housing during the war and postwar periods..

First year under New York law against discrimination

Inflation problems at home and abroad.........

Economic policy:

First report of the Council of Economic Advisers

Wage and hour statistics:

Wage structure of the cigar-manufacturing industry, January 1946..

Union wages and hours in the building trades, July 1, 1946.-

Labor requirements:

Labor requirements in softwood plywood production____

Work injuries:

Work injuries in manufacturing, third quarter 1946..

Labor-management disputes:

Significant recent controversies, December 1946___

Work stoppages in November 1946.....

Labor-management policy for United States Conciliation Service..

Index of consumers' prices in large cities, November 1946.

Retail prices of food in November 1946...

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106

Wholesale prices in November 1946_.

112

Construction:

Construction activity, October-December 1946__

118

Detailed reports for industrial and business employment, October

1946___

133

Labor turn-over in manufacturing, mining, and public utilities, Oc-

tober 1946..........

142

Trends of earnings and hours:

Summary of earnings and hours data for October 1946..

Trend of factory earnings, 1939 to October 1946--

Recent publications of labor interest...

147

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