United States Employment Service

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
United States Employment Service
Other forms of name
U.S. Employment Service
US Employment Service
USES (United States Employment Service)
United States. Department of Labor. United States Employment Service
United States. Employment Service
United States. Employment and Training Administration. United States Employment Service
United States. War Manpower Commission. United States Employment Service
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Other Identifiers

VIAF: 127777190
Wikidata: Q7889865
Library of congress: n 80050133
Sources of Information
  • Industrial, agricultural, and general employment prospects for 1925:t.p. (U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Employment Service)
  • Development of uses specific ... 1983:t.p. (Employment and Training Administration, United States Employment Service)
  • Federal executive directory, May/June 1984:p. 188 (United States, Employment and Training Administration, US Employment Service)
  • Breen, W.J. Labor market politics and the Great War, 1997:CIP t.p. (U.S. Employment Service) galley (USES; became powerful during WWI, then cut back and reverted to a "paper organization" in 1919; an attempt to expand its role in the pre-New Deal period collapsed; for 50 yrs. thereafter the first USES "virtually dropped out of historical memory")
  • U.S. Dept. of Labor Website, Mar. 27, 2000(DOL historical information, 1945-1953: The U. S. Employment Service, redesignated the Bureau of Employment Security (BES) transferred in from the War Manpower Commission)
  • U.S. Dept. of Labor Website, May 8, 2003:menu selections: About DOL/History at the Dept. of Labor/Annals of the Dept./A Brief History ... ([Secretary] Maurice J. Tobin (1948-1953) transferred several dispersed labor functions into the Dept., including the USES, which had been removed in 1939, and the UI system)
  • Carroll's fed. dir., Mar./Apr. 2000(Dept. of Labor; Employment and Training Administration; United States Employment Service, Director); July/Aug. 2001 (Dept. of Labor; [Office of] Workforce Security, Administrator; US Employment Svc. & ALMIS Div., [Chief])
  • Work Opportunity and Welfare-to-Work Tax Credits, 2002:t.p. (U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Employment Service, Office of Workforce Investment) foreword (U.S. Employment Service and ALMIS, Office of Workforce Investment, U.S. Department of Labor) p. I-3 (Employment and Training Administration, Division of the United States Employment Service/ALMIS)
  • Phone call to Division of U.S. Employment Services and ALMIS, May 8, 2003(U.S. Employment Service still exists under section 1 of the Wagner-Peyser Act; U.S. Employment Service name on t.p. of 2002 pub. refers to part of U.S. Employment Service and ALMIS Division)
  • Its web site, May 8, 2003(United States Employment Service; Wagner-Peyser Act of 1933 est'd a nationwide system of public employment offices that are known as the Employment Service; the Employment Service has been known by many names including the Job Service, the "Labor Board" and the "Unemployment Office.")

Wikipedia description:

The US Employment Service (ES) is the national system of public employment offices, managed by state workforce agencies and their localities, and funded by the Department of Labor. It is supervised by the Employment and Training Administration and was established by the Wagner–Peyser Act of 1933.

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