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Series
Ministry of Labour and successors: Employment Policy, Registered Files (EM series...
Catalogue reference: LAB 8
What's it about?
LAB 8
This series contains registered files concerning matters of general employment policy. The series also includes a complete set of ministry forms plus records of, and files relating to, various ministerial committees and other bodies concerned...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- LAB 8
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Labour and successors: Employment Policy, Registered Files (EM series and other series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1907-2001
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registered files concerning matters of general employment policy. The series also includes a complete set of ministry forms plus records of, and files relating to, various ministerial committees and other bodies concerned with employment operations.
The main series of files represented is the EM series, which deals with general employment policy relating to recruitment, labour supply and placing. The series also contains registered files from several other file series relating to manpower and various aspects of employment, including papers concerning special areas, the building industry, port labour, registrations for employment in technical and professional and scientific fields, the employment of aliens (including prisoners of war and immigrants) and ex-servicemen, special wartime arrangements and legislation relating to equal pay and conditions of employment for women. Other file series represented in this series include AD (Appointments Department), ADR (resettlement in civilian employment), AR (recruitment and control of foreign labour), CR (wartime central register of professional and scientific personnel), MRS (manpower statistics), NM (nursing), PL (port labour), and TSR (technical and scientific register).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- EM series; also AD, ADR, AR, CR, MRS, NM, PL, and TSR series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department for Education and Employment, 1995-2001
- Department of Employment, 1970-1988
- Department of Employment and Productivity, 1968-1970
- Employment Department, 1988-1995
- Employment Department Group, 1988-1995
- Ministry of Labour, 1916-1939
- Ministry of Labour, 1959-1968
- Ministry of Labour and National Service, 1939-1959
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 4121 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2001 Department for Work and Pensions
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Initial transfers into this series were made in 1966 from the Ministry of Labour.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing.
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- A key to the file series represented in this series may be found with the series list in the reading rooms at The National Archives, Kew.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10123/
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