UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR • BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS

LAWRENCE R. KLEIN, Editor

KLEIN,

CONTENTS

JANUARY 1947, Vol. 64, No. 1

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Special articles:

Nature and extent of frictional unemployment...

Trends ip 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....

Labor laws and decisions:

Recent decisions of interest to labor.---

Prices and cost of ļiving:

Store samples for retail fcorl prices,

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

Retail prices of food in November 1946...

Wholesale prices in November 1946.-

Construction:

Construction activity, October-December 1946..

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Trends of employment and labor turn-over:

Labor force, November 1946...

Summary of employment reports for November 1946...

Industrial and business employment..

Public employment..

Detailed reports for industrial and business employment, October

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

tober 1946.---

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.-

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