The Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics is recognized as an authoritative resource on the U.S. labor force. It continues and enhances the Bureau of Labor Statistics's (BLS) discontinued publication, Labor Statistics. The eighteenth edition allows the user to understand recent developments as well as to compare today's economy with past history. The Handbook is a comprehensive reference providing an abundance of data on a variety of topics including: .

employment and unemployment; .earnings; .prices; .productivity; .consumer expenditures; .occupational safety and health; .union membership; .international labor comparisons; .

and much more Features of the publication In addition to over 225 tables that present practical data, the Handbook provides: .introductory material for each chapter that contains highlights of salient data and figures that call attention to noteworthy trends in the data; .notes and definitions, which contain concise descriptions of the data sources, concepts, definitions, and methodology from which the data are derived; .references to more comprehensive reports which provide additional data and more extensive descriptions of estimation methods, sampling, and reliability measures. New in the 18th edition of Handbook of U.S Labor Statistics: .A section on worker displacement in Chapter 1 as well as a new section on local area unemployment statistics in Chapter 7 .Several new tables on occupational safety and health in Chapter 14 along with new information on employee benefits in Chapter 6 .

Figures on a variety of topics including productivity, labor-management relations, prices, and workplace fatalities".