Public Employment Offices

From the preface: “This study was taken up in response to a need expressed by practical workers in public employment offices and in industry. The burden of what they had to say was that public employment office work had grown rapidly in recent years, that new and important questions of policy had arisen, and that many of these required more time to be thought through and worked out than persons in the midst of the exacting daily duties of the service could devote to them.” Topics include the nature of employment bureau work, the need for better organization methods, the case for establishing a public employment service, and the methods of organizing and performing the placement and administrative functions of a local office. In collaboration with Bradley Buell, Leslie E. Woodcock, Mary La Dame, and Frederick A. King.

Shelby M. Harrison was director of the Department of Surveys and Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation.