Labor Studies and Employment Relations

Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary, full-text database designed for academic institutions. Although it contains less business-oriented titles than Business Source Premier (see below), it is useful when the researcher is targeting academic studies from the most important peer-reviewed journals.

Covers United States and Canadian history and culture from prehistoric times to the present. Over 1,700 journal titles are scanned for relevant articles and book/media reviews of special interest to historians of U.S. and Canadian history and related fields.

A database that covers most business and management topics including accounting, banking, economics, finance, international trade, marketing, and public administration. It contains the full-text (or abstracts) of articles from thousands of scholarly and professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines. This database also includes profiles of the world's 10,000 largest companies, reports for over two thousand industry sectors, and hundreds of country risk and economic reports.

Weekly 24-page reports on current topics, this is a good first step when researching policy issues. Each issue includes a summary of the issue, a chronology, an "At Issue" column focusing on the pros and cons of some aspect of the issue, and a three or four page bibliography for additional information.

Full-text archive of scholarly journals from various publishers in the areas of arts & sciences, business, ecology, and general science. Since this is an archival periodical database, it does not contain current issues of journals.

Produced by the International Labour Organization (ILO), Labordoc is a free bibliographic database of documents cataloged and abstracted by the ILO Library since 1965. It provides worldwide coverage of reports, studies, and journal articles on labor relations, labor law commentaries, employment, working conditions, economics, cooperatives, intermediate technology, and project evaluation.

A comprehensive source of information on leftist and radical media.

PAIS indexes articles, books, and reports on public policy and international affairs. Publications are from over 120 countries throughout the world.

CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines.

Web of Science is an enhanced web version of Thomson/ISI's citation indexes, including the Social Sciences Citation Index. It can be used for citation and subject searching. Useful for interdisciplinary research. Citations only.

Primarily useful for legal research, Westlaw can also be used to research news and business topics. Includes Hoovers Company Records and a searchable database of SEC filings.

Citations with abstracts of articles from more than 1,300 journals in political science, international relations, public policy and related fields.

3 issues/yr. The principal English-language forum for the analysis of key developments in European industrial relations and their theoretical and practical implications.

ILR, Cornell University, quarterly. Research on employment, compensation, the labor force, and labor relations; peer reviewed; emphasis on quantitative research.

ILO, quarterly. This journal states it "is open to articles which meet scholarly standards but which are written in a way that is accessible to a wider readership." Articles cover labor and work issues in Europe, Asian, and other foreign countries as well as the U.S.

quarterly. Peer-reviewed research.

quarterly. Articles and news on labor, law, management, and the economy.

quarterly. The official journal of the United Association for Labor Education (UALE), multi-disciplinary coverage of work, workers, labor organizations, and worker education.

Labor Resource Center, Queens College, CUNY. Biannual. Articles, fiction, poetry, and discussion of contemporary work issues.

M.E. Sharpe. Bimonthly. Labor-oriented journal with readable articles on current, provocative issues by journalists & academics.