Liaison Librarian
Rhonda McGinnis
Contact:
Rm 134 Purdy/Kresge Library
Wayne State University Library System
Detroit, MI 48202
(313) 577-8568
aa4207@wayne.edu
Wayne State University Library System
Detroit, MI 48202
(313) 577-8568
aa4207@wayne.edu
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Reference Desks
Undergraduate (UGL): 313-577-8852
Purdy/Kresge: 313-577-6423
Arthur Neef Law: 313-577-6180
Shiffman Medical: 313-577-1094
Article Databases
- ProQuest Central This link opens in a new windowProQuest Central brings together many of our most used databases to create the most comprehensive, diverse, and relevant multidisciplinary research database available. It provides access to databases across all major subject areas, including business, health and medical, social sciences, arts and humanities, education, science and technology, and religion. The collection includes thousands of full-text scholarly journals, trade and professional titles, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, case studies, and market reports.
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowThis database includes indexing and full-text articles for over 1000 business journals.
Video Tutorial: Basic Searching in Business Source Complete. - America: history and life This link opens in a new windowOnline version of: America: history and life. Includes full-text of hundreds of journals originally published in paper.
- Historical abstracts This link opens in a new windowHistorical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present. Coverage is identical to the expanded edition of the CD-ROM version.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowProvides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. WSU has perpetual access to the Arts and Sciences I-XV, Hebrew Journals and Sustainability Collections.
- PAIS Index This link opens in a new windowFormerly PAIS International, this database provides indexing and abstracting of articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs.
- EconLit This link opens in a new windowComprehensive index to the world's economic literature (over 300 major economic journals) compiled by the American Economic Association.
- HeinOnline This link opens in a new windowHeinOnline is a scholarly database with online access to current and back issues of law journals, primary United States and international legal resources, and numerous topical law collections in PDF. The HeinOnline homepage provides a full listing of the collections subscribed to by WSU. It also provides a tool to search across the various resources.
- Index to legal periodicals & books This link opens in a new windowInternational coverage and access to scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews, and more. This database contains materials from 1981 to the present. For earlier materials, see Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective.
- VitalLaw (previously CCH Intelliconnect Cheetah Platform) This link opens in a new windowCheetah includes primary and secondary sources for business and employment law, (including antitrust, banking, bankruptcy, intellectual property, and securities) as well as environmental, healthcare, and transportation law. The focus is on the United States, but there is some international coverage..
- Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowCSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,809 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added since 1963 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles.
- Project Muse This link opens in a new windowA searchable database that provides access to the full text of journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses.
- Business, Economic and Labour History This link opens in a new windowA range of important sources from Britain and America, covering key subjects within this historical field, including Keynesian economic policy in post-war Britain; international labour movements; the London Stock Exchange; and the papers of important economists.
Internet Resources - General Research Guides
- Virtual Library Labour HistoryA library network created by its members to help foster research in international labor history. Includes an extensive international listing of labor periodicals that are subscription based.
Internet Resources - Research Institutions
- Walter P. Reuther LibraryIncludes the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, the largest labor archive in the United States. Provides access to the heritage of the American labor movement and related reform movements of the 20th century through research links, finding aids and historical resources. Collections include urban affairs, with particular focus on the history of Metropolitan Detroit. All materials are non-circulating. See web site for archival policies. Holdings are not in the University Libraries catalog.
- Institute for Research on Labor and Employment LibraryUC Berkley's IRLE Library collects information in multiple disciplines and formats about employment and workplace issues. Particular strengths of the collection are labor history, labor and culture, labor and the arts, labor relations, organization studies, international labor issues, trade unionism and collective bargaining.
Internet Resources - Government Sites
- The U.S. Department of LaborThe Department of Labor fosters and promotes the welfare of the job seekers, wage earners, and retirees of the United States by improving their working conditions, advancing their opportunities for profitable employment, protecting their retirement and health care benefits, helping employers find workers, strengthening free collective bargaining, and tracking changes in employment, prices, and other national economic measurements.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsThe principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics. Provides numerous statistics on labor and industry as well as links to other statistical web sites.
- National Board of Labor RelationsAn independent federal agency created by Congress in 1935 to administer the National Labor Relations Act, the primary law governing relations between unions and employers in the private sector. Web site contains decisions from the board and publications.
Internet Resources - Labor News Sources
- LabourStartInternational news site for the labor movement.
- Labor NotesNon-profit organization and monthly magazine about grassroots labor organizations.
Reference Books
These are some of the more useful physical books on this subject that are in the Wayne State University Libraries. The links provided here will take you to the Libraries' Catalog record for each title with the most current location information.
- American salaries and wages survey.Call Number: HD 4973 .A44
Located in the Undergraduate Library - Annual workforce report[ Electronic Resource ]
From the State of Michigan, Department of Civil Service - Employee benefits dictionaryCall Number: HD 4928 .N6 B75 1992
Located in the Purdy/Kresge Library - Historical directory of trade unionsCall Number: HD 6664 .M26
Located in Purdy/Kresge Library - International directory of the trade union movementCall Number: HD6475.2 C65
Located in Purdy/Kresge Library - Roberts' dictionary of industrial relationsCall Number: HD 4839 .R612 1994
Located in Purdy/Kresge Library - Union sourcebook : membership, structure, finance, directoryCall Number: HD6508 .T74 1985
Located in Purdy/Kresge Library - Oversize
Microfiche Collections
Life and Labor Shelved as Life and Labor in microfilm periodicals
Labor Unity Shelved at Reuther Library. Ask Reference Archivist for assistance.
Pamphlets in American History Labor No call number. Ask at Purdy Reference Desk for assistance.
American Federation of Labor Records pt.1 55 reels, pt.2 38 reels 3724 MCRFILM
Archives of the Works Projects Administration and Predecessors 1933-1943 ser. 1, pts. 1-2, reels 1-13 3795 MICROFILM
Black Workers in the Era of the Great Migration 1916-192925 reels 3657 MCRFILM
The Papers of A. Philip Randolph 35 reels 3783 MCRFILM
Socialist Party Papers reel 1-142 S1609 MCRFILM
Southern Tenant Farmers' Union papers, 1934-1970 reel 1-60 S1635 MCRFILM
Departmental Information
- Employment and Labor StudiesContact Information
Labor@Wayne
Walter P. Reuther Library, Suite 255
5401 Cass Avenue
Detroit, MI 48202
Phone: (313) 577-5358
About the Department
The Employment and Labor Relations Major prepares students for leadership roles in the labor movement and careers in labor relations.