Guide to Employment Statistics of BLS: Employment, Labor Turnover, Hours and Earnings, Volume 3 |
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Page 65 - As used in this paragraph, the "shipbuilding industry" includes establishments primarily engaged in building all types of ships, barges, canal boats and lighters of five gross tons and over, whether propelled by sail or motor power or towed by other craft. Establishments primarily engaged in fabricating structural assemblies or components for ships, or subcontractors engaged in ship painting, joinery, carpentry work, electrical wiring installation, etc., are not included.
Page 110 - Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing hot metal, pig iron, silvery pig iron, and ferroalloys from iron ore and iron and steel scrap; converting pig iron, scrap iron and scrap steel into steel; and in hot rolling iron and steel into basic shapes such as plates, sheets, strips, rods, bars, and tubing. Merchant blast furnaces and byproduct or beehive coke ovens are also included in this industry.
Page 31 - The manufacturing division includes those establishments engaged in the mechanical or chemical transformation of inorganic or organic substances into new products and usually described as plants, factories, or mills, which characteristically use power-driven machines and materials-handling equipment. Estab-lishments engaged in assembling component parts of manufactured products are also considered manufac-turing if the new product is neither a structure nor other fixed improvement.
Page 31 - Lumber and wood products Furniture and fixtures Stone, clay, and glass products Primary metal industries Fabricated metal products Machinery, except electrical Electrical equipment and supplies.
Page 31 - Lumber and wood products, except furniture Furniture and fixtures Paper and allied products Printing, publishing and allied...
Page 46 - ... dry colors, and pigments; and (3) finished chemical products to be used for ultimate consumption, such as drugs, cosmetics, and soaps; or to be used as materials or supplies in other industries, such as paints, fertilizers, and explosives.
Page 95 - Establishments primarily engaged in weaving or braiding fabrics 12 inches or narrower in width of fabric-covered plastic yarn are also included in this industry. Important products of this industry include fabric belting (mechanical and apparel), ribbons, tapes, bindings and gimps, woven labels, hatbands, elastic and nonelastic webbing, covered rubber yarns and threads, and fabric lacings.
Page 74 - This major group includes establishments or places of business primarily engaged in selling merchandise to retailers; to industrial, commercial, institutional, or professional users; or to other wholesalers; or acting as agents in buying merchandise for or selling merchandise to such persons or companies.
Page 70 - This major group includes establishments primarily engaged in furnishing local and suburban passenger transportation, such as those providing passenger transportation within a single municipality, contiguous municipalities, or a municipality and its suburban areas...
Page 58 - Establishments commonly known as contract tool and die shops and primarily engaged in manufacturing, on a job or order basis, special tools and fixtures for use with machine tools, hammers, die casting machines, and presses. The products of establishments classified in this industry include a wide variety of special toolings, such as dies; punches; die sets and components, and subpresses; jigs and fixtures; and special checking devices. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing...