Sheets, Structural-Steel Worker (Riveting). Job Descriptions for the Construction Industry
date: label: date made
content: c 1940
notes: label: Description
content: This typescript has the job description for a structural-steel worker who does riveting. The United States government has been publishing volumes giving job descriptions from at least the time of World War I, when the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics prepared for the United States Employment Service several books giving “descriptions of occupations” for such areas as logging camps and sawmills, water transportation, and textiles and clothing.
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content: The Employment Service published a new series of volumes in the 1930s. For example, in 1936 there appeared a five-volume set entitled <I> Job Descriptions for the Construction Industry</I>. The fifth volume in the set included on p. 1197 a description of the job of a riveter. This is a typed copy of that description.
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content: Reference:
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content: United States Employment Service, <I>Job Descriptions for the Construction Industry</I>, vol.5, Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1936. The volume (as well as others in the series) is available online – accessed March 31, 2020.
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content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Psychological Tests
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Gift of David Gold
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0710.73
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content: 1989.0710.73
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content: 1989.0710
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content: set of sheets
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21.5 cm x 28 cm; 8 15/32 in x 11 1/32 in