---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 2404"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "2404"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/2404"
units:
  - "Chapter 51 — National Productivity and Quality of Working Life"
  - "Subchapter I — Findings, Purpose, and Policy; Definitions"
---

# §2404. Definitions


For the purposes of this chapter—

- (1) the term “Center” means the National Center for Productivity and [Quality of Working Life](#4);
- (2) the term “Board” means the Board of Directors of the [Center](#1);
- (3) the terms “productivity growth” and “improved productivity” shall be interpreted to include, but not be limited to, improvements in technology, management techniques, and the [quality of working life](#4); and
- (4) the term “quality of working life” shall be interpreted to mean the conditions of work relating to the role of the worker in the production process.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–136, title I, § 104, Nov. 28, 1975, 89 Stat. 735.)