Established by the order of the Council of People's Commissars of the Turkestan region on November 23, 1917 was transformed into the People's Commissariat of Labor and Social Security in November 1919; The People's Commissariats were again separated on August 6, 1920. Liquidated on December 24, 1924 in connection with the national delimitation of Central Asia.
Decrees, resolutions and circulars of the Council of People's Commissars of the Turkestan Republic on the activities of the People's Commissariat of Labor. Regulations on the People's Commissariat of Labor of the TASSR and its local branches. Protocoles of the meetings of the board of the People's Commissariat of Labor and its departments, the regional conference of the departments of labor and social security (1919), meetings of the insurance council under the People's Commissariat of Labor, the tariff-rationing and pricing-conflict commission; protocols of the 1st Turkestan Congress of Trade Unions (1918). Reports and statements on the activities of the People's Commissariat of Labor and its departments, on the activity of the regional departments of labor and social security, the labor exchange; information on the distribution of workers by groups and categories of physical and mental labor; correspondence with enterprises and trade unions about improving working conditions, about workers' control, providing labor, about the work of conciliation chambers and arbitration courts.