A compendium of statistical tables completes the book. Katharine G. Abraham, Commissioner for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, established the strategic direction for this series of reports. Deborah Klein and Richard M. Devens provided overall direction for this year s volume. Information in this report is available to sensory-impaired individuals on request. This material is in the public domain and may be reproduced without further permission.
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The introductory essay outlines the progress of the American worker over the course of the 20th century. This piece also suggests the degree to which our understanding of the workforce, as result of refined statistics, improved substantially during the century. The introduction was written by Donald M. Fisk. Chapter 1 describes the important changes in the composition of the American population and workforce that are the result of immigration and internal migration, particularly the movement of African American workers out of the South. These changes have driven the continuing development of methods for classifying demographic data to track the economic status of a growing variety of groups in the population.