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Department of Employment: Manpower and Productivity Service Division: Registered...
Catalogue reference: LAB 107
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LAB 107
This series comprises files of the Manpower and Productivity Service Division of the Department of Employment and Productivity Service Division of the Department of Employment and Productivity, relating to general manpower policy matters.
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 107
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Employment: Manpower and Productivity Service Division: Registered Files (MPS Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1965-1974
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series comprises files of the Manpower and Productivity Service Division of the Department of Employment and Productivity Service Division of the Department of Employment and Productivity, relating to general manpower policy matters.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Numerical by former reference number
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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)
- MPS file 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 of Employment and Productivity, Manpower and Productivity Service Division, 1968-1970
- Department of Employment, Industrial Relations Division II, 1970-1974
- Department of Employment, Manpower and Productivity Service Division, 1970-1972
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 131 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1999 Department for Education and Employment
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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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- Topics
- Labour
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is not accruing.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Manpower and Productivity Service Division concerned itself with general manpower policy matters, including personnel management in industry, and negotiations in the areas of railways, docks, shipping and shipbuilding, and printing industries. It also supported the work of inquiries into labour-only subcontracting in the construction industry, and supplied information and advice on manpower aspects of employment. Following re-organisation in 1974, these functions were transferred to the Manpower General Division (responsible for the establishment of the Manpower Services Commission), except for its negotiatory function which passed to the newly-created Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15050/
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