Labour Studies

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Subject Databases

• Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII)
• Lexis-Nexis Academic (includes Quicklaw)

Some Related Databases

• Academic Search Complete
• Arts and Humanities Citation Index
• America: History and Life
• Business Source Complete
• Canadian Business and Current Affairs
• Canadian Newsstand
• Canadian Periodical Index
• Canadian Publishers Collection
• Dissertations and Theses (Proquest)
• Econlit
• FRANCIS (International Humanities and Social Studies)
• Historical Abstracts
• International Occupational Health and Safety Database
• JSTOR
• Libris Canadiana
• PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service)
• Project MUSE
• Social Sciences Citation Index
• Sociological Abstracts
• WorldCat
• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

e-Journals and e-Books

• Directory of Open Access Journals

Some Internet Portals

Canada

• Book Review Digest
• Gender & Work Database
• Negotech
• Working Histories

International

• Families and Work Institute
• Women Working, 1870-1930
• Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE), University of California Berkeley
• International Institute of Social History
• Labor Studies and Radical History, San Francisco
• Labor Unions and the Internet, Cornell University
• LABORSTA (Dept. of Statistics, International Labour Office)

Associations and organizations

• Canadian Committee on Labour History
• Canadian Labour Congress
• Ontario Federation of Labour
• International Labour Organization

Trade Unions

• Canadian Labour Unions
• In Their Words: The Story of BC Packers

Government Resources

• Canada Industrial Relations Board
• Canada Labour Code
• Government of Canada Web Archive
• Ontario Ministry of Labour, Labour Relations
• Ontario collective agreement expirations (In print - 3rd floor CA2 ON L50 O51)
  • 2008 (Online)

Archival Resources

• Laurentian University Archives (See: Thematic classification, 5. Labour
• Archeion (Ontario Archival Information Network)
• Archives Canada. Canadian National Information Network

 

Statistics

Canada

• Statistics Canada: Labour (General) Database on Minimum Wages (Human Resources and Social Development Canada)
  • Tables
• Employment, Earnings and Hours (Statistics Canada)
• Standard Occupational Classifications (Statistics Canada)
• Permanent Layoffs, Quits and Hirings in the Canadian Economy , 1978-1995
• Public Service Employee Survey, 1995 (Statistics Canada)

United States

• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Issues in Labor Statistics PDF Library

International

• Foreign Labor Statistics (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
• LABORSTA (International Labour Office)
• Monthly labor review [electronic resource] : MLR
• OECD Labour and unemployment statistics
• Year book of labour statistics = Annuaire des statistiques du travail = Anuario de estadisticas del trabajo (In print, 2003- 2nd floor HD 4826 I63

Research Aids

Bibliography

• Canadian Labour History Bibliography
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

Dictionaries

• Dictionary of labour biography (In print - 2nd floor HD 8393 A1 B44 Ref., v.1-4)
• The lexicon of labor : more than 500 key terms, biographical sketches, and historical insights concerning labor in America (In print - 2nd floor HD 8066 M87 1998 Ref.)
• Lexique de l'emploi = Employment glossary (In print - 2nd floor HD 4839 B43 1997 Ref.)
• OED (Oxford English Dictionary)
• Words and phrases : a dictionary of collective agreement language (In print -2nd floor KE 3193 A57 W67 1993)

Encyclopedias

• Canadian Encyclopedia
• Canadian Encyclopedic Digest (CED)
• Historical encyclopedia of American labor (In print - 2nd floor HD 8066 H57 2004 V.1, 2 Ref.)

Loose-leaf services

• Canadian Labour Arbitration (In print - 2nd floor KE 3206 B76 2006 Ref.)
• Canadian Labour Law, 2nd ed. (In print - 2nd floor KE 3100 A32 1993 Ref.)