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Labor Department   /lˈeɪbər dɪpˈɑrtmənt/   Listen
Labor Department

noun
1.
The federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913.  Synonyms: Department of Labor, DoL, Labor.





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"Labor Department" Quotes from Famous Books



... effort to make a clearing house of women's work in the interest of help to the government it was not simply a measure for temporary use or of temporary value. The idea still persists in peace as well as in war, and justly, that the interests of women in industry require a special division of the Labor Department in order that we shall be able to know what is needed for their protection in the interest of family life as well as understand what individual women require in justice when they are wage-earners. A minimum ...
— The Family and it's Members • Anna Garlin Spencer


Words linked to "Labor Department" :   executive department, OSHA, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Department of Labor, labor


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