The U.S. Employment Service at 50: it too had to wait its turn, (ABSTRACT), Monthly Labor Review Online, June 1983

The U.S. Employment Service at 50:
it too had to wait its turn

Henry P. Guzda
Historian, U.S. Department of Labor

On June 6, 1933, the U.S. Employment Service was born with passage of the Wagner-Peyser Act; earlier attempts to establish labor exchanges had been controversial and short-lived, but the legislation was virtually unopposed in recognition of depression-era problems.