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Pathfinder:
Labor Information Resources
Scope|Subject
Headings|Overview Sources|Circulating
Books|Labor History|Labor
Statistics|Legal Guides|Union
Contracts|Periodicals,
Journals & Trade Publications|Web
Sites|Videos
SCOPE:
Labor
economics is the branch of economics that studies the
nature and determinants of employment and compensation.
Emphasis is placed on the role played by social
institutions and different types of market structures
that jointly determine the pattern and mobility or speed
of adjustment in the labor market where human labor
inputs are bought and sold. ( Malonis, Encyclopedia of
Business) The
purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline
for student research in locating library resources on
this topic. It is not intended as a comprehensive
listing, but as a selective sampling of the many types
of resources available in the library.
SUBJECT
HEADINGS:
Books
dealing with labor are listed in the Baddour Librarys
online catalog under the following subject headings:
Labor
United
States
Trade
unions United
States
Arbitration,
Industrial United States
There
are sources located in the Reference Section of the
Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary
of the topic you are researching. The following is a
list of some of the sources available in the library.
OVERVIEW
SOURCES
REF
KF3319.6.A46 1997 The
American Bar Association Guide to Workplace Law:
Everything You Need to Know About Your Rights as an
Employee or Employer
REF
HN57.E58 1993 Encyclopedia
of American Social History
REF
HF 1001.E466 2000 Encyclopedia
of Business
REF
HF 1001.E466 2001 Encyclopedia
of Business and Finance
Some
representative books from the Circulating Collection
that are located upstairs in the library are:
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Appelbaum,
Eileen. The
New American Workplace: Transforming Work Systems in the
United States. Ithaca, N.Y: ILR Press, 1994.
Barbour,
Scott. Work:
Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego, Calif: Greenhaven
Press, 1995.
Carre,
Francoise. Nonstandard
Work: The Nature and Challenges of Changing Employment
Arrangements. Champaign, Ill: Industrial Relations
Research Association, 2000.
Craig,
Robert L. The
ASTD Training and Development Handbook: A Guide to Human
Resource Development. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996.
Gordon,
David M. Fat
and Mean: The Corporate Squeeze of Working Americans and
the Myth of Managerial Downsizing. New York:
Martin Kessler Books, 1996.
Poole,
Michael. The
IEBM Handbook of Human Resource Management. Boston:
International Thomson Business Press, 1999.
Thygesen,
Niels. Globalization
and Trilateral Labor Markets: Evidence and Implications:
A Report to the Trilateral Commission. New York:
Trilateral Commission, 1996.
Trice,
Harrison Miller. The
Cultures of Work Organizations. Englewood Cliffs,
N.J: Prentice-hall, 1993.
LABOR HISTORY
Bernstein,
Paul. American
Work Values: Their Origin and Development. Albany:
State University of New York Press, 1997.
Brody,
David. In
Labor's Cause: Main Themes on the History of the
American Worker. New York: Oxford University Press,
1993.
Dubofsky,
Melvyn. The
State & Labor in Modern America. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
Etulain,
Richard W. Cesar
Chavez: A Brief Biography with Documents. New York,
New York: Palgrave, 2002.
Griffeth,
Rodger W. Retaining
Valued Employees. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage
Publications, 2001.
Holley,
William H. The
Labor Relations Process. Fort Worth: Dryden Press,
1997.
Meltzer,
Milton. Bread--and
Roses: The Struggle of American Labor, 1865-1915.
New York: Facts on File, 1991.
Montgomery,
David. The
Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State,
and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1987.
LABOR STATISTICS
REF
HD8051.A63 Handbook
of U.S. Labor Statistics: Employment, Earnings, Prices,
Productivity, and Other Labor Data
LEGAL GUIDES
Hubbartt,
William S. The New Battle Over Workplace Privacy: How
Far Can Management Go? What Rights Do Employees Have?:
Safe Practices to Minimize Conflict, Confusion, and
Litigation.
UNION CONTRACTS
Coble,
Dorothy Sue. Women and Unions: Forging a
Partnership.
Ithaca, New York: ILR Press, 1993.
Masters,
Marick Francis. Unions at the
Crossroads: Strategic Membership, Financial, and
Political Perspectives.
Westport, Conn: Quorum, 1997.
Yates,
Michael. Why
Unions Matter. New York: Monthly Review
Press, 1998.
Some
of the specific periodicals that the library subscribes
to (in print or electronically through one of our
databases) that focus on the topic of labor are:
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS
& TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Click the link for a
list of full text journals available through our
databases in:
Open Access Journals in
Business & Management
WEB SITES
Oral History Project in Labor History (Business )
http://www2.roosevelt.edu/library/oralhistory/oralhistory.htm
Labor history documents and oral histories compiled
by Elizabeth Balanoff and librarians at Roosevelt
University.
VIDEOS
People's
Century 1924 On the Line D422 .P46 1998 v.5
The
River Ran Red HD5325.I5 H67x 1993
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08/22/2007
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