Political Science — Labor

Full-Text Availability: Note that databases with "Index" or "Abstracts" in the title often have links to the full-text articles.

BNA Labor and Employment Law Library Access to cases, manuals, newsletters, and analysis in U.S. Labor and employment law.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Handbook of Labor Economics
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences Citations from an international selection of publications, including over 2600 journals, in all areas of the social sciences with emphasis on economics, political science, sociology and anthropology.
International Labor Organization (ILO) Provides documents on conventions and recommendations, worldwide labor news, and information on issues such as gender and employment. For other publications and titles, search in NUcat or consult with the International Documents Librarian in the Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department .
JSTOR Provides electronic access to back issues of core scholarly journals including almost 30 in Political Science. To browse the list of archives, click here. Articles have been digitized, providing full-image access.
KILM Key Indicators of the Labour Market International Labour Organization's 18 indicators of employment. KILM may be used to examine trends in participation in the world of work. This web site provides information about KILM and how to use the data, which is available on CD-ROM in the Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department
PAIS International Bibliographic index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general. Journal articles, books, government documents, statistical compilations, committee reports, directories, serials, reports of public, intergovernmental, and private organizations, and most other forms of printed literature from all over the world are indexed. This database covers 1972 to the present. Go to PAIS International Archive for coverage from 1937-1976. (The archive will eventually cover 1915 through 1976.)
St. James Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide
U.S. Department of Labor Includes information on general employment trends.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts Citations with abstracts from more than 1100 journals in political science and related disciplines. Coverage is international in scope.

For further information, contact:

Lucy E. Lyons
Collection Analysis, Journalism, and Political Science
Northwestern University Library
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
(847) 491-2229, fax 467-7899
l-lyons@northwestern.edu
Office Location: Room 2623, 2nd Floor, East Tower, Main Library

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