The Dictionary of Occupational Titles
The History of Classifying Occupations and How It Affects Our Perception of Work
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5 min readAug 12, 2020
To help match the unemployed with employment opportunities in the depths of the Great Depression, Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor under Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal administration, worked to pass The Wagner-Peyser Act of 1933, creating Employment Service…
