Inflation and the negotiation of wages. Comparative responses to monetary changes in Germany and the United States during the Gold Standard Era, 1876–1926

On the Controversies Behind the Origins of the Federal Economic Statistics

“…A crucial step in the path to our modern price statistics was the establishment of the US Bureau of Labor in 1884. 1 Organized labor wanted an organization that would fight for the rights of labor, while employers resisted. The compromise was an agency that would simply collect and distribute statistics about labor.…”