LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION OUTLINE

CLASS H - SOCIAL SCIENCES

Subclass H
H1-99

Social sciences (General)

Subclass HA
HA1-4737
HA29-32
HA36-37
HA38-39
HA154-4737
HA154-155
HA175-473

Statistics
Theory and method of social science statistics
Statistical services. Statistical bureaus
Registration of vital events. Vital
records
Statistical data
Universal statistics
By region or country

Subclass HB
HB1-3840
HB71-74
HB75-130
HB131-147
HB135-147
HB201-206
HB221-236
HB238-251
HB501
HB522-715
HB535-551
HB601
HB615-715
HB801-843
HB846-846.8
HB848-3697
HB3711-3840

Economic theory. Demography

Economics as a science. Relation to other
subjects
History of economics. History of economic
theory
Including special economic schools
Methodology
Mathematical economics. Quantitative methods
Including econometrics, input-output
analysis, game theory
Value. Utility
Price
Competition. Production. Wealth
Capital. Capitalism
Income. Factor shares
Interest
Profit
Entrepreneurship. Risk and uncertainty.
Property
Consumption. Demand
Welfare theory
Demography. Population. Vital events
Business cycles. Economic fluctuations

Subclass HC
HC10-1085
HC79

HC92
HC94-1085

Economic history and conditions

Special topics
Including air pollution, automation,
consumer demand, famines, flow of funds,
etc.
Economic geography of the oceans (General)
By region or country

Subclass HD
HD28-9999
HD28-70
HD39-40.7
HD41
HD45-45.2
HD47-47.4
HD49-49.5
HD50-50.5
HD56-57.5
HD58
HD58.7-58.95
HD59-59.6
HD60-60.5
HD61
HD62
HD62.2-62.8
HD66-66.2
HD69
HD72-88
HD101-1395.5
HD1286-1289
HD1290-1291
HD1301-1313
HD1326-1329
HD1330-1331
HD1332-1333.5
HD1334-1335
HD1336-1339
HD1361-1395.5
HD1401-2210
HD1428-1431
HD1470-1476
HD1478
HD1483-1486
HD1491-1491.5
HD1492-1492.5
HD1493-1493.5
HD1501-1542
HD1549
HD1580
HD1635-1702

Industries. Land use. Labor

Management. Industrial management
Capital. Capital investments
Competition
Technological innovations. Automation
Costs
Crisis management. Emergency management.
Inflation
Delegation of authority. Decentralization.
Span of control
Industrial productivity
Location of industry
Organizational behavior, change and
effectiveness. Corporate culture
Public relations. Industrial publicity
Social responsibility of business
Risk in industry. Risk management
Standardization. Simplification. Waste
Management of special enterprises
Work groups. Team work in industry.
Quality circles
Other
Including business consultants,
capacity, size of industries, etc.
Economic growth, development, planning
Land use
Land tenure
Communal ownership
Municipal ownership
Nationalization (Agrarian socialism)
Large holdings
Landlord and peasant
Land reform. Agrarian reform
Consolidation of land holdings
Small holdings. Peasant proprietors.
Parcellation
Real estate business
Agriculture
International cooperation
Size of farms
Sharecropping
Agricultural associations, societies, etc.
Cooperative agriculture
Collective farms
Government owned and operated farms. State
farms. Sovkhozes
Agricultural classes
Including farm tenancy, agricultural
laborers
Gleaning
Reclamation of agricultural land. Melioration
Utilization and culture of special classes of
lands

HD1711-1741
HD2321-4730.9
HD2329
HD2330
HD2331-2336
HD2337-2339
HD2340.8-2346.5
HD2350.8-2356
HD2365-2385
HD2421-2429
HD2709-2930.7

HD2951-3575
HD3611-4730.9

HD4801-8943
HD4861-4895
HD4909-5100.9
HD5106-5267
HD5306-5474
HD5481-5630.7
HD5650-5660
HD5701-6000.9

HD6050-6305

HD6350-6940.7
HD6941-6948
HD6951-6957
HD6958.5-6976
HD6977-7080
HD7088-7252
HD7255-7256
HD7260-7780.8
HD7795-8027

Including pasture lands, water resources

development
Irrigation
Industry
Industrialization
Rural industries
Home labor. Home-based businesses
Sweatshops
Small and medium-sized businesses, artisans,
handicrafts, trades
Large industry. Factory system. Big business
Contracting. Letting of contracts
Trade associations
Corporations
Including international business enterprises, diversification, industrial
concentration, public utilities
Cooperation. Cooperative societies
Industrial policy. The state and industrial
organization
Including licensing of occupations and
professions, subsidies, inspection,
government ownership, municipal
services
Labor. Work. Working class
Labor systems
Wages
Hours of labor
Including overtime, shift work, sick
leave, vacations
Labor disputes. Strikes and lockouts
Industrial arbitration. Mediation and
conciliation
Employee participation in management.
Employee ownership. Industrial democracy.
Works councils
Labor market. Labor supply. Labor demand
Including unemployment, manpower policy,
occupational training, employment
agencies
Classes of labor
Including women, children, students,
middle-aged and older persons,
minorities
Trade unions. Labor unions. Workers'
associations
Employers' associations
Industrial sociology. Social conditions of
labor
Industrial relations
Cost and standard of living
Social insurance. Social security. Pension
Vocational rehabilitation. Employment of
people with disabilities
Industrial hygiene. Industrial welfare
Labor policy. Labor and the state

HD8031
HD8038
HD8039
HD8045-8943
HD9000-9999
HD9000-9495
HD9502-9502.5
HD9506-9624
HD9650-9663
HD9665-9675
HD9680-9714
HD9715-9717.5
HD9720-9975
HD9999

Labor in politics. Political activity of the

working class
Professions (General). Professional employees
By industry or trade
By region or country
Special industries and trades
Agricultural industries
Energy industries. Energy policy. Fuel trade
Mineral industries. Metal trade
Chemical industries
Pharmaceutical industry
Mechanical industries
Including electric utilities, electronic
industries, and machinery
Construction industry
Manufacturing industries
Miscellaneous industries and trades

Subclass HE
HE1-9990
HE199-199.5
HE199.9
HE305-311
HE323-328
HE331-380
HE369-373
HE374-377
HE379-380
HE380.8-971
HE380.8-560
HE561-971
HE730-943
HE1001-5600
HE5601-5725
HE5746-5749
HE5751-5870
HE5880-5990
HE6000-7500
HE7511-7549
HE7601-8700.9
HE8660-8688
HE8689-8700.95
HE8701-9680.7
HE9713-9715
HE9719-9721
HE9723-9737
HE9751-9756
HE9761-9900

Transportation and communications

Freight (General)
Passenger traffic (General)
Urban transportation
Transportation geography. Trade routes
Traffic engineering. Roads and highways.
Streets
Traffic surveys (General)
Bridges
Tunnels. Vehicular tunnels
Water transportation
Waterways
Shipping
Merchant marine. Ocean shipping. Coastwise
shipping
Railroads. Rapid transit systems
Automotive transportation
Including trucking, bus lines, and
taxicab service
Stage lines
Ferries
Express service
Postal service. Stamps. Philately
Pneumatic service
Telecommunication industry. Telegraph
Wireless telegraph. Radiotelegraphy
Radio and television broadcasting
Telephone industry
Cellular telephone services industry. Wireless
telephone industry
Artificial satellite telecommunications
Signaling
Messenger service
Air transportation. Airlines

Subclass HF
HF1-6182
HF294-343
HF1014
HF1021-1027
HF1040-1054
HF1701-2701
HF3000-4055
HF5001-6182
HF5381-5386
HF5387-5387.5
HF5410-5417.5
HF5419-5422
HF5428-5429.6
HF5429.7-5430.6
HF5437-5444
HF5446-5459
HF5460-5469.5
HF5469.7-5481
HF5482-5482.4
HF5482.6-5482.65
HF5484-5495
HF5520-5541
HF5546-5548.6
HF5548.7-5548.85
HF5549-5549.5
HF5601-5689
HF5691-5716
HF5717-5734.7
HF5735-5746
HF5761-5780
HF5801-6182

Commerce
Boards of trade. Chambers of commerce.
Merchants' associations
Balance of trade
Commercial geography. Economic geography
Commodities. Commercial products
Tariff. Free trade. Protectionism
By region or country
Business
Vocational guidance. Career devlopment
Business ethics
Marketing. Distribution of products
Wholesale trade
Retail trade
Shopping centers. Shopping malls
Purchasing. Selling. Sales personnel. Sales
executives
Canvassing. Peddling
Department stores. Mail order business.
Supermarkets. Convenience stores
Markets. Fairs
Secondhand trade
Black market
Warehouses. Storage
Office equipment and supplies
Office management
Industrial psychology
Personnel management. Employment
management
Accounting. Bookkeeping
Business mathematics. Commercial arithmetic
Including tables, etc.
Business communication
Including business report writing,
business correspondence
Business records management
Shipment of goods. Delivery of goods
Advertising

Subclass HG
HG1-9999
HG178
HG179
HG201-1496
HG258-312
HG315
HG321-329
HG335-339
HG348-353.5
HG361-363
HG381-395
HG401-421

Finance
Liquidity
Personal finance
Money
Precious metals. Bullion
Small coins
Mints. Assaying
Counterfeiting
Paper money
Legal tender
International coinage
Bimetallism

HG451-1496
HG1501-3550
HG1621-1638
HG1641-1643
HG1651-1654
HG1655
HG1656
HG1660
HG1662
HG1685-1704
HG1706-1708
HG1709
HG1710-1710.5
HG1722
HG1723
HG1725-1778
HG1811-2351
HG2397-3550
HG3691-3769

HG3810-4000
HG4001-4285
HG4301-4480.9
HG4501-6051
HG4530
HG4538
HG4551-4598
HG4621
HG4701-4751
HG4900-5993
HG6001-6051
HG6105-6270.9
HG8011-9999
HG8053.5-8054.45
HG8059
HG8075-8107
HG8111-8123
HG8205-8220
HG8501-8745
HG8751-9295
HG8779-8793
HG8799-8830
HG8835-8899

By region or country
Banking
Interest rates. Interest tables
Bank loans. Bank credit. Commercial loans
Discount
Acceptances
Bank reserves. Bank liquidity. Loan loss
reserves
Bank accounts. Bank deposits. Deposit
banking
Insurance of deposits. Deposit insurance
Drafts. Checks
Accounting. Bookkeeping
Data processing
Electronic funds transfers
Bank mergers
Bank stocks. Banking as an investment
Banks and the state. State supervision of
banks
Special classes of banks and financial
institutions
By region or country
Credit. Debt. Loans
Including credit institutions, credit
instruments, consumer credit, bankruptcy
Foreign exchange. International finance.
International monetary system
Finance management. Business finance.
Corporation finance
Trust services. Trust companies
Investment, capital formation, speculation
Investment companies. Investment trusts.
Mutual funds
Foreign investments
Stock exchanges
Stockbrokers. Security dealers. Investment
advisers
Government securities. Industrial securities.
Venture capital
By region or country
Speculation
Lotteries
Insurance
Insurance for professions. Malpractice
insurance. Professional liability insurance
Business insurance
Insurance business. Insurance management
Government policy. State supervision
Government insurance
By region or country
Life insurance
Actuarial science. Statistical theory and
methodology applied to insurance
By class insured, by risk, by plan
Life insurance business. Management

HG8901-8914
HG8941-9200.5
HG9201-9245
HG9251-9262
HG9271
HG9291-9295
HG9301-9343
HG9371-9399
HG9651-9899
HG9956-9969
HG9969.5-9999

Government policy. State supervision

By region or country
Mutual life insurance. Assessment life
insurance. Fraternal life insurance
Industrial life insurance
Child insurance. Life insurance for
children
Maternity insurance
Accident insurance
Health insurance
Fire insurance
Casualty insurance
Other insurance
Including automobile, burglary, credit,
disaster, title insurance

Subclass HJ
HJ9-9940
HJ9-99.8
HJ210-240
HJ241-1620
HJ2005-2216
HJ2240-5908
HJ2321-2323
HJ2326-2327
HJ2336-2337
HJ2338
HJ2351
HJ2351.4
HJ2361-3192.7
HJ3801-3844
HJ3863-3925
HJ4113-4601
HJ4629-4830
HJ4919-4936
HJ5309-5510
HJ6603-7390
HJ7461-7980
HJ8001-8899
HJ8052
HJ8101-8899
HJ9103-9695

HJ9701-9940

Public finance
Periodicals. Serials. By region or country
History
By region or country
Income and expenditure. Budget
Revenue. Taxation. Internal revenue
Tax incidence. Tax shifting. Tax equity
Progressive taxation
Tax exemption
Taxation of government property
Inflation and taxation
Tax revenue estimating
By region or country
Revenue from sources other than taxation
Direct taxation
Property tax
Income tax
Capitation. Poll tax
Administrative fees. User charges.
License fees
Customs administration
Expenditures. Government spending
Public debts
Sinking funds. Amortization
By region or country
Local finance. Municipal finance
Including the revenue, budget, expenditure,
etc. of counties, boroughs, communes,
municipalities, etc.
Public accounting. Auditing

Subclass HM
HM(1)-1281
(HM1-299)
HM435-477

Sociology
These are obsolete numbers no longer used
by the Library of Congress
History of sociology. History of sociological

HM461-473
HM481-554
HM621-656
HM661-696
HM701
HM706
HM711-806
HM756-781
HM786-806
HM811-821
HM826
HM831-901
HM1001-1281
HM1041-1101
HM1106-1171
HM1176-1281

theory
Schools of sociology. Schools of social thought
Theory. Method. Relations to other subjects
Culture
Social control
Social systems
Social structure
Groups and organizations
Community
Organizational sociology. Organization theory
Deviant behavior. Social deviance
Social institutions
Social change
Social psychology
Social perception. Social cognition
Including perception of the self and
others, prejudices, stereotype
Interpersonal relations. Social behavior
Social influence. Social pressure

Subclass HN
HN1-995
HN30-39
HN41-46
HN50-995

Social history and conditions. Social problems.

Social reform
The church and social problems
Community centers. Social centers
By region or country

Subclass HQ
HQ1-2044
HQ12-449
HQ19-30.7
HQ31-64
HQ71-72
HQ74-74.2
HQ75-76.8
HQ77-77.2
HQ77.7-77.95
HQ79
HQ101-440.7
HQ447
HQ449
HQ450-472
HQ503-1064
HQ750-755.5
HQ755.7-759.92
HQ760-767.7
HQ767.8-792.2
HQ793-799.2
HQ799.5-799.9

The Family. Marriage. Women

Sexual life
Sexual behavior and attitudes. Sexuality
Sex instruction and sexual ethics
Sexual deviations
Bisexuality
Homosexuality. Lesbianism
Transvestism
Transexualism
Sadism. Masochism. Fetishism, etc.
Prostitution
Masturbation
Emasculation. Eunuchs, etc.
Erotica
The family. Marriage. Home
Eugenics
Parents. Parenthood
Including parent and child, husbands,
fathers, wives, mothers
Family size
Children. Child development
Including child rearing, child life,
play, socialization, children's rights
Youth. Adolescents. Teenagers
Young men and women

HQ799.95-799.97
HQ800-800.4
HQ801-801.83
HQ802
HQ802.5
HQ803
HQ804
HQ805
HQ806
HQ811-960.7
HQ961-967
HQ981-996
HQ997
HQ998-999
HQ1001-1006
HQ1051-1057
HQ1058-1058.5
HQ1060-1064
HQ1073-1073.5
HQ1075-1075.5
HQ1088-1090.7
HQ1101-2030.7
HQ1871-2030.7
HQ2035-2039
HQ2042-2044

Adulthood
Single people
Man-woman relationships. Courtship. Dating
Matrimonial bureaus. Marriage brokerage
Matrimonial advertisements
Temporary marriage. Trial marriage.
Companionate marriage
Breach of promise
Desertion
Adultery
Divorce
Free love
Polygamy
Polyandry
Illegitimacy. Unmarried mothers
The state and marriage
The church and marriage
Widows and widowers. Widowhood
Aged. Gerontology (Social aspects).
Retirement
Thanatology. Death. Dying
Sex role
Men
Women. Feminism
Women's clubs
Life skills. Coping skills. Everyday living
skills
Life style

Subclass HS
HS1-3371
HS101-330.7
HS351-929
HS951-1179
HS1201-1350
HS1355
HS1501-2460.7
HS1501-1510
HS1525-1560
HS1601-2265
HS2275
HS2301-2460.7
HS2501-3371

Societies: secret, benevolent, etc.

Secret societies
Freemasons
Odd Fellows
Knights of Pythias
Other societies
Other societies. By classes
Benevolent and "friendly" societies and
mutual assessment fraternities
Religious societies
Race societies
Occupation societies
Political and "patriotic" societies
Clubs. Clubs and societies for special classes
Including boys' societies, Boy scouts,
girls' societies

Subclass HT
HT51-1595
HT51-65
HT101-395
HT161-165
HT165.5-169.9

Communities. Classes. Races

Human settlements. Communities
Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
Garden cities. "The city beautiful"
City planning

HT170-178
HT201-221
HT231
HT251-265
HT281
HT321-325
HT330-334
HT351-352
HT361-384
HT388
HT390-395
HT401-485
HT601-1445
HT621-635
HT641-657
HT675-690
HT713-725
HT731
HT751-815
HT851-1445
HT1501-1595

Subclass HV
HV1-9960
HV40-69

HV85-525
HV530
HV541
HV544
HV544.5
HV547
HV551.2-639
HV553-639
HV560-583
HV599-639
HV640-645
HV650-670
HV675-677
HV680-696
HV697-4959
HV697-3024
HV697-700.7
HV701-1420.5
HV835-847
HV873-887

Urban renewal. Urban redevelopment

City population
Including children in cities, immigration
Effect of city life
Mental and moral life
Recreation. Amusements
The city as an economic factor. City
promotion
Metropolitan areas
Suburban cities and towns
Urbanization. City and country
Regional economics. Space in economics
Regional planning
Rural groups. Rural sociology
Classes
Origin of social classes
Classes arising from birth
Including royalty, nobility, commons
Classes arising from occupation
Caste system
Freedmen
Serfdom
Slavery
Races
Including race as a social group and race
relations in general

Social pathology. Social and public welfare.

Criminology
Social service. Social work. Charity
organization and practice
Including social case work, private and
public relief, institutional care,
rural social work, work relief
By region or country
The church and charity
Women and charity
Charity fairs, bazaars, etc.
International social work
Self-help groups
Emergency management
Relief in case of disasters
Red Cross. Red Crescent
Special types of disasters
Refugee problems
Life saving
Accidents. Prevention of accidents
Free professional services
Including medical charities
Protection, assistance and relief
Special classes
Families. Mothers. Widow's pensions
Children
Foundlings
Destitute, neglected, and abandoned

HV888-907
HV931-941
HV959-1420.5
HV1421-1441
HV1442-1448
HV1449
HV1450-1494
HV1551-3024
HV3025-3174
HV3025-3163
HV3165-3173
HV3174
HV3176-3199
HV4005-4013
HV4023-4470.7
HV4480-4630
HV4701-4890.9
HV4905-4959
HV4961-4995
HV5001-5720.5
HV5725-5770
HV5800-5840
HV6001-7220.5
HV6035-6197

HV6201-6249
HV6250-6250.4
HV6251-6773.55
HV6774-7220.5
HV7231-9960
HV7428
HV7431
HV7435-7439
HV7551-8280.7
HV7935-8025
HV8031-8080
HV8035-8069
HV8073-8079.35
HV8079.2-8079.35
HV8079.5-8079.55
HV8081-8099
HV8130-8280.7
HV8290-8291
HV8301-9920.7
HV9051-9230.7

children. Street children

Children with disabilities
Fresh-air funds
Orphanages. Orphans
Young adults. Youth. Teenagers
Women
Gay men. Lesbians
Aged
People with disabilities
Including blind, deaf, people with
physical and mental disabilities
Special classes. By occupation
Mariners
Shop women, clerks, etc.
Other. By occupation
Special classes. By race or ethnic group
Immigrants
Poor in cities. Slums
Mendicancy. Vagabondism. Tramps.
Homelessness
Protection of animals. Animal rights. Animal
welfare
Animal experimentation. Anti-vivisection
Degeneration
Alcoholism. Intemperance. Temperance reform
Tobacco habit
Drug habits. Drug abuse
Criminology
Criminal anthropology
Including criminal types, criminal
psychology, prison psychology, causes
of crime
Criminal classes
Victims of crimes. Victimology
Crimes and offenses
Crimes and criminal classes
Criminal justice administration
Social work with delinquents and criminals
Prevention of crime, methods, etc.
Gun control
Police. Detectives. Constabulary
Administration and organization
Police duty. Methods of protection
Special classes of crimes, offenses
and criminals
Investigation of crimes. Examination
and identification of prisoners
Police social work
Traffic control. Traffic accident
investigation
Private detectives. Detective bureaus
By region or country
Private security services
Penology. Prisons. Corrections
The juvenile offender. Juvenile delinquency.
Reform schools, etc.

HV9261-9430.7
HV9441-9920.7
HV9950-9960

Reformation and reclamation of adult

prisoners
By region or country
By region or country

Subclass HX
HX1-970.7
HX519-550
HX626-696
HX806-811
HX821-970.9

Socialism. Communism. Anarchism

Communism/socialism in relation to special
topics
Communism: Utopian socialism, collective
settlements
Utopias. The ideal state
Anarchism