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Cost of clothing for moderate-income families, 1935-44.

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Format:
Book
Government document
Author/Creator:
Schell, Emil D.
Contributor:
Brown, Laura Mae
United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics, issuing body.
Series:
Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics ; 789.
Bulletin ; no. 789
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Clothing trade--United States.
Clothing trade.
Cost and standard of living--United States.
Cost and standard of living.
United States.
Genre:
Government publications -- United States.
Online resources.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 preliminary leaf, 30 pages) : illustrations.
Place of Publication:
Washington, D.C. : United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1944.
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Variations in clothing costs
Problems and methods of measurement
Composition of the clothing index
Changes in costs of individual clothing articles
Group indexes
Relative increases in costs of men's and women's clothing
Specifications for the collection of retail prices
How specifications are developed
Government regulations affecting quality of clothing and shoes priced for cost-of-living index
Government orders which required changes in construction of civilian apparel
Government orders which caused, but did not require, changes in specifications
Specification changes for apparel and shoes, September 1942 to September 1943
Appendix.
Notes:
At head of title: United States Department of Labor, Frances Perkins, secretary. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Isador Lubin, commissioner (on leave). A.F. Hinrichs, acting commissioner.
"Reprinted from the Monthly Labor Review, July 1944, with additional data."
"This report was prepared by Emil D. Schell and Laura Mae Webb"--Letter of transmittal.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (FRASER, viewed May 2, 2018).
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
Other Format:
Print version: Schell, Emil Daniel. Cost of clothing for moderate-income families, 1935-44 ...
OCLC:
687094330
Access Restriction:
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