- المجال: Government; Labor
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A method of speeding up work. The pace setter is a person who sets the work pace, usually at an ever higher rate, by leading the work gang and necessitating its catching up with him.
Industry:Labor
A business that employs workers without regard to union membership. In the 1920s the "open shop" employed an ill disguised attempt to get ride of bona fide unions. States with "Right to Work" laws have decreed the open shop.
Industry:Labor
The slogan of the IWW which stressed the inclusion of everyone, regardless of trade, into an all encompassing union. This was also the rationale for the general strike where workers in all types of employment would strike at the same time.
Industry:Labor
U. S. Import price indexes based on country or region, rather than product type.
Industry:Labor
Those persons who work for profit or fees in their own business, profession, trade, or farm. Only the unincorporated self-employed are included in the self-employed category.
Industry:Labor
This term is used to describe data series that have not been subjected to the seasonal adjustment process. In other words, the effects of regular or seasonal patterns have not been removed from these series.
Industry:Labor
This term refers to the average number of hours spent in a 24-hour day (between 4 a. M. On the diary day and 4 a. M. On the interview day) doing a specified activity.
Industry:Labor
The unemployment rate represents the number unemployed as a percent of the labor force.
Industry:Labor
This system is being adopted by Federal statistical agencies to classify workers into occupational categories for the purpose of collecting, calculating, or disseminating data. All workers are classified into 1 of more than 800 occupations according to their occupational definition. To facilitate classification, occupations are combined to form 23 major groups, 96 minor groups, and 449 broad occupations. Each broad occupation includes detailed occupations) requiring similar job duties, skills, education, or experience.
Industry:Labor
These payments include profits, consumption of fixed capital, taxes on production and imports less subsidies, net interest and miscellaneous payments, business current transfer payments, rental income of persons, and the current surplus of government enterprises.
Industry:Labor
