Elizabeth Stephan Librarian for the College of Business and Economics
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CBE Office PH45/45B
Oct 13 - Dec 2
Tuesday 1:30-3:30
Wednesday 9:30-11:30
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Find Books and more in our Library Use the Library Catalog to locate materials within our collection. The Library Catalog provides location, call number and bibliographic information for the books, journals, newspapers, selected government documents, microforms and other media, as well as online or electronic resources owned or accessed by the Western Libraries.
Subject Headings Books and other resources can be found in the Western Library catalog or the Summit catalog by searching by subject. Please use the following Library of Congress subject headings: Industrial Relations Subject Headings
America: History and Life / ABC-Clio • Dates covered: 1964-current
A bibliographic database indexing scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. The scope includes citations and abstracts of journal articles, dissertations, as well as book and media reviews. 6 Simultaneous Users.
EBSCO - Academic Search Complete Academic Search Complete is a scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,500 journals and a total of more than 10,000 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.
Labor studies and radical history / Holt Labor Library Labor Studies and Radical History Provides links to alternative labor sources, and a monthly feature which has full text, graphics and links on topics related to class struggles in the advanced industrialized world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Natlex / International Labour Organization This is a database of national labor, social security and related human rights legislation. NATLEX contains over 55,000 records covering over 170 countries and territories
PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HB1.A1 P822
• Dates covered: 1972-current
• Check Catalog PAIS, offered through CSA Illumina, contains over 400,000 citations and abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings, government documents, and statistical directories. Site License.
American women and the labor movement, 1825-1974 : an annotated bibliography / Soltow, Martha Jane. • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HD6079.2.U5 S66 1976
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American working class history : a representative bibliography / Neufeld, Maurice F. • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HD8066 .N4
• Check Catalog A revised and expanded edition of Neufeld's A Representative Bibliography of American Labor History, it provides selective coverage up to 1983 arranged by subject classification. The 7261 unannotated entries include films, dissertations and theses, fiction, government and union publications, and articles from both scholarly and popular journals. This is updated by the annual (unannotated) bibliography published in the journal Labor History.
U.S. labor movement : references and resources / Stern, Robert N., 1948- • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HD8066 .S746 1996
• Check Catalog This is a guide to sources with a sociological perspective toward American labor unions as a social movement. "The guide is structured around research themes, such as organizational structure, labor and politics, and antilabor countermovements. Each chapter is preceded by an introductory essay on the literature and its significance."
Reference Works: Biographies
Biographical dictionary of American labor / Fink, Gary M (editor) • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HD8073.A1 B56 1984
• Check Catalog This is an "updated and expanded revision of the Biographical Dictionary of American Labor Leaders, originally published in 1974.
Reference Works: Dictionaries
Labor, employment, and the law : a dictionary / Anglim, Christopher. • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference KF3317 .A54 1997
• Check Catalog Provide definitions of labor terms with references to laws and court cases
The lexicon of labor : more than 500 key terms, biographical sketches, and historical insights concerning labor in America / Murray, R. Emmett. • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HD8066 .M87 1998
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Roberts' dictionary of industrial relations / Roberts, Harold Selig, 1911-1970. • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HD4839 .R612 1994
• Check Catalog This encyclopedic dictionary of industrial relations terms also contains short summaries of major decisions of the Supreme Court and the National Labor Relations Board.
Reference Works: Directories
International directory of the trade union movement / Coldrick, A. P. • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HD6475.2 .C65
• Check Catalog This volume lists unions by region and then country. In each article, directory information follows a lengthy description of the history and structure of the labor movement
Unions.org / Unions.org This provides a searchable directory of unions in the United States.
World trade union directory / Cardiff University Lists worldwide organizations affiliated with labor. It is primarily UK focused but does provide worldwide coverage with over 1000 links to sites all over the world.
Reference Works: Encyclopedias
ABC-CLIO companion to the American labor movement / Taylor, Paul F. • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HD6508 .T39 1993
• Check Catalog Concise encyclopedia of the American labor movement, covering key leaders, major unions, landmark court decisions and legislations.
Historical dictionary of organized labor / Docherty, J. C. • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HD4839 .D58 1996
• Check Catalog This gives over 250 entries about labor organizations, unions, leaders and ideas in labor.
Labor conflict in the United States : an encyclopedia / Filippelli, Ronald L. (editor) • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HD5324 .L32 1990
• Check Catalog An encyclopedia of strikes and other labor conflict.
A) Labor Research Portal which in turn links to: Labor Guides providing guides and bibliographies on workers’ rights, labor culture, globalization, and immigration resources; Web Guides with links to a digital reference library, guide to e-journals in the industrial relations filed, labor unions—international; Contracts database This contains fully searchable union contracts. B) The IIR home page provides access to information about the various programs, publications and research initiated by the UC-Berkeley Institute of Industrial Relations.
Labor studies and radical history / Holt Labor Library Labor Studies and Radical History Provides links to alternative labor sources, and a monthly feature which has full text, graphics and links on topics related to class struggles in the advanced industrialized world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Labornet A site designed by and for unions. It offers a basic free service with links to a number of unions on the web, as well as updates on labor news and "Action alerts".
United States. National Labor Relations Board / United States. National Labor Relations Board The NLRB is the primary regulatory body governing union-management regulations. The library has a number of their publications in print form. The web site contains NLRB Rules and Regulations, Decisions, facts, press releases, public notices, and much more. Use this to determine if a company has had any recent disputes with its union where the NLRB was called into mediate.
Child labor : a world history companion / Hobbs, Sandy. • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HD6231 .H63 1999
• Check Catalog A handy A-Z guide to the abuses of child labor.
America's career infonet / Career One Stop Gives overviews of wages and occupational trends. It also has an Industry Information portal where you can create an industry profile with information about future employment growth and industry resources.
Employment Outlook 1998-2008 / United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics • Location: Haggard 2 Government Information:
L2.3:2522
• Check Catalog Provides an overview of industry and occupational employment projections for the 1998-2008 period. Focuses on industries and occupations that will generate the largest portion of the projected job growth. Discusses the implications of employment growth on the quality of jobs in terms of earnings and on the education and training requirements of jobs that will be generated from 1998-2008
Enhanced occupational outlook handbook / Farr, J. Michael. • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HF5382 .E54 2000
• Check Catalog Complete descriptions for all 253 jobs in the Occupational Outlook Handbook 2000-2001 (including earnings, job growth, education and skills required, and more); over 800 job descriptions from the new O*NET database; over 1,700 job descriptions from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles
Specialty occupational outlook--professions / Gale Research • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HD8038.A1 S66
• Check Catalog This is a supplement to the Occupational Outlook Handbook and describes and provides outlooks for 150 popular and emerging careers.
Labor Forecasts: International
Foreign labor trends / United States. Department of Labor The Foreign Labor Trends (FLT) report series is designed to be an informative and authoritative source of information on labor institutions, practices, and recent key developments in the countries reported.
Common law of the workplace : the views of arbitrators / Bureau of National Affairs • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference KF3424 .C66 1998
• Check Catalog This presents the most widely accepted arbitral principles in the area of labor and employment. It includes privacy rights,
practice and procedure, contract interpretation, management and union rights, job assignments, seniority, discipline and discharge, wages and hours, safety and health, fringe benefits, and remedies
International labor and employment laws / Keller, William L • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference K1705 .I54 2003
• Check Catalog This is a treatise providing an overview of labor and employment law of the major industrialized countries.
United States. National Labor Relations Board / United States. National Labor Relations Board The NLRB is the primary regulatory body governing union-management regulations. The library has a number of their publications in print form. The web site contains NLRB Rules and Regulations, Decisions, facts, press releases, public notices, and much more. Use this to determine if a company has had any recent disputes with its union where the NLRB was called into mediate.
Labor Productivity
Handbook of U.S. labor statistics : employment, earnings, prices, productivity, and other labor data • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HD8051 .H36
• Check Catalog The Handbook provides recent and historical data on U.S. employment, earnings, prices, productivity, living conditions and related topics. This popular resource also includes data on training, alternative work arrangements, union affiliation, and occupational injuries.
State of working America / Mishel, Lawrence et als • Location: Haggard Hall 2 - Reference HD8051 S73 2006-07
• Check Catalog Discusses the economic well being of the average Americans by looking at labor markets, family income, wages, taxes, employment and distribution of wealth.
Foreign labor statistics / United States Bureau of Labor Statistics This site provides international comparisons of hourly compensation costs; productivity and unit labor costs; labor force, employment and unemployment rates; and consumer prices for the major industrial countries, but other countries are included in certain measures.
International Labour Organization (ILO) / International Labour Organization The International Labour Organization promotes social justice and human and labour rights.
The ILO formulates international labour standards in the form of Conventions and Recommendations setting minimum standards of basic labour rights: freedom of association, the right to organize, collective bargaining, abolition of forced labour, equality of opportunity and treatment, and other standards regulating conditions across the entire spectrum of work related issues.
OECD economic outlook / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development • Check Catalog This twice yearly publication analyzes the major trends and forces that shape the short-term economic prospects. It provides in depth coverage of the economic policy measures required to foster growth and stable prices in each OECD member country. It includes good tables with wage comparison.
Year book of labour statistics, 1945-89 =: Annuaire des statistiques du travail, 1945-89 = Anuario de estadisticas del trabajo, 1945-89 / International Labour Office. • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HD4826 .I631 1990
• Check Catalog Tables with annual series for some 190 countries, areas or territories throughout the world for the past ten years. Data on employment, unemployment, hours of work, wages, labour cost, consumer prices, occupational injuries and strikes and lockouts, including series classified by economic activity, occupation, status in employment and level of education. Data for latest year available on total and economically active population, by sex and age group, and on economically active population by level of education.
Labor Statistics - United States
Employment/unemployment and earnings statistics : a guide to locating data in U.S. documents / Ross, John M. (John Murray) • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HD5724 .R67 1996
• Check Catalog This helps locate employment/unemployment and personal income/earnings data on the US labor force in publications issued by the US government.
Handbook of U.S. labor statistics : employment, earnings, prices, productivity, and other labor data • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HD8051 .H36
• Check Catalog The Handbook provides recent and historical data on U.S. employment, earnings, prices, productivity, living conditions and related topics. This popular resource also includes data on training, alternative work arrangements, union affiliation, and occupational injuries.
United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics The BLS is an independent national statistical agency that collects and analyzes a broad array of data in the field of labor economics and statistics, broadly defined. They produce a great of data on payroll, employment, productivity, employment projections, prices and living conditions, and compensation, and industry productivity. Of particular interest, they publish the Consumer Price Index, the Producer Price Index, and the Consumer Expenditure Survey.
