ALE This volume was prepared by the U. S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics with the cooperation of the following Bureaus of the Department Bureau of Employment Security Women's Bureau Alice K. Leopold, Director Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training Bureau of Labor Standards and the VETERANS ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE Foreword The years ahead present a challenge to everyone concerned with education, guidance, and personnel work. Our growing economy creates an expanding need for skilled manpower that can be met only by enabling each individual to use his capacities to the utmost. To this end, young people need the best possible education, as well as competent guidance in selecting a career. Schools and colleges have increasing enrollments and there is an increased demand for guidance services; at the same time, there is a need for the expansion of school facilities and teaching staffs. These expansions must be planned in such a way as to prepare adequate numbers of trained workers for each of the various occupations required by the Nation's economy. The Department of Labor is actively engaged in aiding the development of a skilled and versatile work force, and contributes to this goal in several ways. We promote the development of skills through apprenticeship and other training programs within industry. We aid the State employment. services in their programs of providing placement and counseling services. Finally, we carry on research and make information available on manpower needs and employment opportunities in the various industries and occupations, so that individuals can make their career choices, and educational authorities and industry can develop their training plans, on the basis of the best possible information. As a major part of this research and informational program, the Department is proud to present the third edition of the Occupational Outlook Handbook, which, in its earlier versions, has been so useful to guidance and personnel workers and to young people entering our labor force. JAMES P. MITCHELL, Secretary of Labor III |