Unlike many other areas of study, the the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) used in Labor Economics follows much of the common vocabulary of this discipline. Therefore, try searching your terms as subjects, instead of keywords to keep your results focused in this area.
Examples of LCSH
Labor Economics -- work -- employment -- occupations -- industrial relations -- labor and laboring classes -- economic policy -- labor unions -- collective bargaining -- manpower policy -- labor market -- (women--employment, or minorities--employment)
Reference Books useful for this class.
All are shelved on the first floor of Bush Library and do not circulate.
Key Indicators of the Labour Market 2001-2002 HD5712 .K49 2002 or newer E-Book
The State of Working America 2006/2007 HD8051 .S73 2006/07
Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor HD8066 .H57 2003
Work in America: an encyclopedia of history, policy and society HD8066 .W637 2003
Foreign Labor Trends HD8244.4 .A12 and beyond also available online for selected countries
Handbook of US Labor Statistics HD8051 .H36 2008 (older years also available as an E-Book)
Employment and Earnings HD8051 .A64 (Current year on ref older in stacks), also available online 1996-2006
US Census Data HA 201 1990 and online See also CensusScope
Statistical Abstract of the United States HA202
Statistical Portrait of the United States: social conditions and trends HA214 .S73 2002 or
(also available as an E-Book)
Guide to Economic Indicators HC103 .F9 2006
Working Americans 1880-1999 HD8066 .D47 2000
Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor HD8066 .H57 2003
The world's women, 2000 : trends and statistics HQ1154 .675 2000
Try searching in our growing collection of electronic books. They are all linked through CLICnet. A username and password are required to "check out" an electronic book. Some titles are reference books.
Examples:
Sex Differences in Labor Markets
Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movement
Labour Economics
...and others
Journal Indexes
All online indexes are searchable from off campus.
Business Source Premier (EBSCO)
Business Searching Interface (BSI)
Dates Covered: Indexing back to 1965; selected titles go back further
Full Text: Partial
Description:As the world’s largest full text business database, Business Source Premier provides full text for nearly 3,800 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. This database is updated on a daily basis.
The Business Searching Interface provides a streamlined appearance and faster searching capabilities for locating country economic data, company profiles, industry information and market research. It contains the same coverage as Business Source Premier.
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First Search Indexes: These require a username and password both on and off campus
Econlit is the Economics index. May link to full text elsewhere, but no native full-text in index.
ABI/INFORM U.S. and international journals on business and management.
Business Management is a business management index containing case studies and examples of business people implementing management techniques which involve labor issues.
Wilson SelectPlus (which includes Wilson Business Index) is easy to search and use, contains no native full-text, but links out to full-text in other products.
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Dates Covered: 1970-present
Full Text: Yes
Description: This index is a full text database comprised of 175 periodicals and other publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. GenderWatch supports programs in business, education, literature and the arts, health sciences, history, political science, public policy, sociology and contemporary culture, gender and women's studies and more. Publications include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, n-g-o and special reports. GenderWatch contains some archival materials from the 1970's, making this an important repository on the historical perspective of the evolution of the women's movement and the changes in gender roles over the last fifteen to twenty years.
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Also look at these broader social science indexes
Academic Search Premier
Academic OneFile
Annual Reviews Index, Try category: Sociology
JSTOR
University of Chicago Press Index (publisher of Journal of Labor Economics)
Search mulitple indexes at once (doesn't include FirstSearch indexes) using 360 Search
WorksOnWork - is an index to the materials at the University of Minnesota's Industrial Relations Center. WorksOnWork currently indexes over 70,000 items found in the Georgianna E. Herman Reference Room collection in the field of industrial relations, including books, journal articles, working papers, proceedings, and web sites. Only web sites are linked full-text. All other resources would be used in-house at the U of M.
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Searching the Web
There are lots of web sites containing statistics available at no cost. Often, the most comprehensive, and trustworthy sites are developed by government agencies.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
U.S. Department of Labor
Census Bureau Current Popluation Survey
FedStats
United States National Labor Relations Board
U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Economic Analysis
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Panel Study of Income Dynamics from the University of Michigan Survey Research Center
Social Security Administration
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
The Labor Review Digital Archive - back issues (1907-2004) of this publication from the Minneapolis Central Labor Union Council - AFL-CIO. Useful for tracking local labor issues in the Twin Cities, historically. Guest access available.
Don't forget to use your critical skills of web site analysis when evaluating a web site. Proper citation of web and print resources in your papers in also expected. Consult the library's
Citing Sources section on the The Reference Shelf or use RefWorks to manage your citations.
Hamline University, 2008
Contact: Amy Sheehan
Last Updated 8/27/2008
