Title: Department of Labor
Acronym:
Superintendent of Documents Class Number Stem: L
Local Subject Index:
Local Subject Term: U.S. Federal GILS
Local Subject Term: Accident Prevention
Local Subject Term: Accidents
Local Subject Term: Business
Local Subject Term: Career Education
Local Subject Term: Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity
Local Subject Term: Collective Bargaining
Local Subject Term: Contracts
Local Subject Term: Cost of Living
Local Subject Term: Counseling
Local Subject Term: Discrimination
Local Subject Term: Economic Policy
Local Subject Term: Education
Local Subject Term: Employment and Occupations
Local Subject Term: Equal Opportunity
Local Subject Term: Factories
Local Subject Term: Handicapped
Local Subject Term: Health
Local Subject Term: Health Care
Local Subject Term: Industrial Safety
Local Subject Term: Industry
Local Subject Term: Insurance
Local Subject Term: International Trade
Local Subject Term: Labor-Management Relations
Local Subject Term: Management
Local Subject Term: Minorities
Local Subject Term: Occupational Outlook Handbook
Local Subject Term: Occupational Safety and Health
Local Subject Term: Occupations
Local Subject Term: Personnel Management
Local Subject Term: Physical Fitness
Local Subject Term: Physically Challenged
Local Subject Term: Recreation
Local Subject Term: Retirement
Local Subject Term: Safety
Local Subject Term: Social Security
Local Subject Term: Unions
Local Subject Term: Veterans
Local Subject Term: Vital and Health Statistics
Local Subject Term: Vocational Education
Local Subject Term: Vocational Guidance
Local Subject Term: Wages
Local Subject Term: Women
Local Subject Term: Workers' Compensation
Abstract: "The purpose of the Department of Labor is to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment. In carrying out this mission, the Department administers a variety of Federal labor laws guaranteeing workers' rights to safe and healthful working conditions, a minimum hourly wage and overtime pay, freedom from employment discrimination, unemployment insurance, and workers' compensation. The Department also protects workers' pension rights; provides for job training programs; helps workers find jobs; works to strengthen free collective bargaining; and keeps track of changes in employment, prices, and other national economic measurements. As the Department seeks to assist all Americans who need and want to work, special efforts are made to meet the unique job market problems of older workers, youths, minority group members, women, the handicapped, and other groups."
Purpose: Selected publications of this and other United States government agencies are available through the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). The index to the publications available through the FDLP is the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications (MOCAT), which also includes ordering information for those publications available for sale. Many publications are available to the public in the approximately 1300 Federal depository libraries throughout the United States.See also data in this record for Access Constraints and User Constraints, where such limitations on this agency's publications are appropriate.
Agency Program: "The Department of Labor (DOL), the ninth executive department, was created by act of March 4, 1913 (29 U.S.C. 551). A Bureau of Labor was first created by Congress in 1884 under the Interior Department. The Bureau of Labor later became independent as a Department of Labor without executive rank. It again returned to bureau status in the Department of Commerce and Labor, which was created by act of February 14, 1903 (15 U.S.C. 1501)."
Availability: "The Office of Public Affairs distributes a brochure entitled 'Department of Labor,' which describes the activities of the major agencies within the Department, and 'Publications of the Department of Labor,' a subject listing of publications available from the Department."
Distributor:
Distributor Name: Office of Public Affairs, Department of Labor
Distributor Street Address: Room S-1032, 200 Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Distributor City: Washington, D.C.
Distributor Zip Code: 20210
Distributor Network Address:
Distributor Telephone: 202-219-7316
Access Constraints: No access constraints apply to information disseminated through the Federal Depository Library Program. In other cases, some access constraints may be applied by the agency to assure the protection of privacy or intellectual property, and any other special restrictions or limitations on obtaining the information resource.
Use Constraints: No constraints apply to the use of information disseminated through the Federal Depository Library Program. In other cases, some use constraints may be applied by the agency to assure the protection of privacy or intellectual property, and any other special restrictions or limitations on using the information resource.
Cross Reference:
Cross Reference Title: Monthly Catalog of U. S. Government Publications
Cross Reference Linkage:
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/dpos/adpos400.html
Cross Reference Type: HTTP
Cross Reference:
Cross Reference Title: U.S. Department of Labor [Home Page]
Cross Reference Linkage: http://www.dol.gov
Cross Reference Type: HTTP
Point of Contact for Further Information:
Organization: Office of Public Affairs, Department of Labor
Street Address: Room S-1032, 200 Constitution Avenue, N.W.
City: Washington
State: D.C.
Zip Code: 20210
Telephone: 202-219-7316
Supplemental Information: Source of information for Local Subject Index is Subject Bibliography Index. Most of the other information in this record is extracted from the U.S. Government Manual.
Control Identifier: GPO/SOD/LPS-0027
Record Source:
Department/Agency Name: United States
Government Printing Office
Major Organizational Subdivision:
Superintendent of Documents
Minor Organizational Subdivision: Library Programs Service
Name of Unit: Cataloging Branch
Internet Contact: dldgpo@access.digex.net
Telephone: 202-512-1141
Date of Last Modification: 19951222