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Cost of clothing for moderate-income families, 1935-44.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Schell, Emil D.
- 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:
- Use copy Restrictions unspecified
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