Seventh Biennial Report Of The Bureau Of Labor Statistics Of The State Of California

Excerpt from Seventh Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the State of California: For the Years 1895-1896 Section 3 of an Act to establish and support a Bureau Of Labor Statistics, approved March 3, 1883, provides: It shall be the duty of the Commissioner to collect, assort, systematize, and present, in biennial reports to the Legislature, statistical details, relating to all departments Of labor in the State, such as the hours and wages of labor, cost of living, amount of labor required, estimated number Of persons depending on daily labor for their support, the probable chances of all being employed, the Operation of labor-saving machinery in its relation to hand labor, etc. Said statistics may be classified as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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