Title 29, LaborRelease 119-102
§1 Design and Duties of Bureau Generally
Title 29 › CHAPTER 1 — LABOR STATISTICS › SUBCHAPTER I — BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS › § 1
Summary
Collect and share useful information about work in the United States, focusing on capital, work hours, workers’ pay, and ways to improve their overall well‑being.
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Title 29, §1
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The general design and duties of the Bureau of Labor Statistics shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification Act
June 27, 1884, created Bureau of Labor in Department of the Interior. section 1 of act
June 13, 1888, created Department of Labor and outlined its general design and duties, and section 9 of that act transferred Bureau of Labor to Department of Labor. Act Feb. 14, 1903, placed Department of Labor under jurisdiction and made it a part of Department of Commerce and Labor. Act Mar. 18, 1904, changed name of Department of Labor to Bureau of Labor in Department of Commerce and Labor. Act Mar. 4, 1913, created Department of Labor and transferred Bureau of Labor from Department of Commerce and Labor to newly created Department of Labor, redesignating such transferred Bureau as Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
For
Transfer of Functions
of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of Labor, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of Labor, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 6 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1263, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
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Citation
29 U.S.C. § 1
Title 29, Labor
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102