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Government Documents Collection
Reference Materials
Journals and Other Periodicals
Subscription Databases
Internet Sites
Writing the Paper and Citing Your Research
Job Search
The Marvin K. Peterson Library has a strong collection of materials for the study of Labor Relations. Use the Library's catalog to find all types of materials in the library, and the Journals at the MKP Library link for journals in all formats (paper, microform, electronic). Both are on the Library's home page. If you are searching for articles, use our print indexes and electronic databases -explained more fully in our Finding Articles guide. Other guides, such as Occupational Safety and Health, Connecticut State Law, and Federal Law might contain related information.
Currently registered students, faculty and staff can access most of our databases online by using links on our home page. You will use the Proxy Connection. Follow the login instructions at the top of the page - your UNH ID is the long number on your UNH ID card. You get your UNH ID card from the Information Technology Department, and use it for the proxy connection and to borrow books.
Come to the Information Desk for assistance with your research, call us at (203) 932-7189, or e-mail us. Books and articles not in our library may be requested via interlibrary loan (ILL). ILL forms are available at the Information Desk or online via the Proxy Connection.
Our library catalog is on our home page. First choose the type of search you want, by selecting from among the many options offered: keyword, subject, author, title, etc. Then place the cursor in the 'find this' box and type in the words you want to search. Some subject terms to search by: Industrial relations; Collective bargaining; and Arbitration, industrial. Some books and journals in our catalog are available online from the Linked Resources tab. For more detailed information on using the online catalog, please refer to the Using the Online Catalog guide.
Government Documents Collection
The Marvin K. Peterson Library has been a Federal Depository Library since 1971, and we collect government documents in areas that support the curriculum, including the Department of Labor. Government documents have been listed in our online catalog since 2000, and many publications are available online from the catalog. Click on the 'Linked Resources' tab at the top of the catalog record screen to get to the live link to the publication.
For documents received before 2000, use other online and print indexes. This is explained more fully in our library guide on government documents, available at the Information Desk or online at our web page - look for the 'Library Guides' link. To use this collection, come to the Information Desk where a staff member will assist you. We will retrieve documents for you, help you find documents not listed in our catalog, and direct you to other resources.
Reference materials containing brief factual entries, overviews and statistical information remain in the library where they can be consulted by anyone. They are kept on the entry level.
Laws and Regulations:
The Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Index to CFR, List of Sections Affected (of the CFR) and US Code are all also freely available online from GPO Access. Look under ‘Executive Resources'. The Federal Register can be searched back to 1994. The databases HeinOnline also covers legal resources, including the Federal Register, with coverage going back to the first issue.
The Library's reference collection has the following in print, fiche and online from our catalog.
Code of Federal Regulations. Ref KF70.A3 C6. Coverage from 1970-2007. Also online from our catalog.
LSA, List of Sections Affected Ref KF70.A34 C6. 1964-82 paper, 1981-1983 & 1986-1996 fiche (missing some issues.) Also available online from our catalog.
Index to CFR. Ref KF70 .A312, 1977-79, paper. Ref KF70 .A3 C6 Index, 1998-2004, 2005-current, paper. Also online from GPO Access.
Federal Register. Documents Collection, SuDoc AE2.106. Also online from our catalog.
Federal Register Index. Ref KF70 .A2 1985 Index, Fiche 1982-current (missing some issues).
U.S. Code. Previous edition with supplements and current edition in Ref KF62 2000 .A2. This is a 35 volume set with a six volume supplement. Also online from our catalog.
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, As Amended. Ref KF3485 .F34 2004. Also online from catalog.
Other Reference Materials:
BNA Labor Relations Reporter. Includes Labor Arbitration and Dispute Settlements and compilations of State Laws. Ref KF 3365.L3 L2. v.1-122, with cumulative indexes.
BNA Policy and Practice Series. Ref KF3391.A2 B8
Bulletin of Labour Statistics International Labour Organisation. 1990-current. Ref HD4826 I53
Connecticut Labor & Employment Law, 2nd. Ed. 2001. Ref KFC3931 .C66 2001
Deskbook encyclopedia of employment law. Ref KF3314 .D47 2002
Employee and Union Member Guide to Labor Law: A Manual for Attorneys Representing the Labor Movement. Ref KF 3369 .E46 1983
Legislative History of the Labor Management Relations Act. 1974. Ref KF3356.534.A15 1974
Shepard's Labor Law Citations. Ref KF3310.5.S5 2003 and supplements up to current.
Source Book on Collective Bargaining: Wages, Benefits, and Other Contract Issues. Ref HD6500 .B58 2004
Some Circulating Books:
Includes government documents. An asterisk (*) indicates an item in our government documents collection - ask for these at the Information Desk, and check the ‘Linked Resources' label in our catalog to see if there is online access.
*Administrative Law Judge Bench Book
Age of Industrial Violence 1910-15; the Activities and Findings of the United States Commission on Industrial Relations. Graham Adams. 1966. HD5324 .A43
Employee Versus Owner Issues in Organisational Behaviour. 2001. HD58.7.T735 v.8
The ethics of human resources and industrial relations. HF5549 .E822 2005
Fair Labor Standards Handbook for States, Local Governments, and Schools. Two volumes. KF5390.A6 G56 1985
*FOIA Manual. National Labor Relations Board. Substantive Portion. Procedural Portion.
*NLRB Style Manual: A Guide for Legal Writing in Plain English. LR 1.6/2:ST9/2000. Paper and Online from our catalog.
Retooling for Growth. HD3616 .U47 R47 2008
Wage and Hour Cases; Report of Opinions of Federal and State Courts Relating to Minimum Wages, Maximum Hours, Overtime Compensation, Child Labor, with Case Table and Index-Digest. HD4974 .W8 v.1-23
Journals and Other Periodicals
Scholarly journals, popular magazines, newspapers, and some annual publications like yearbooks are called periodicals. Go to the link Journals at the MKP Library to find periodicals both in the library and available online - you can search by title, title keyword, or browse by subject. Periodicals are shelved by title, ignoring 'the,' 'a', and 'an' at the beginning of the title. Paper journals are on the lower level of the library, the location shown in the Library catalog as ‘Journals Collection'. Those on microfilm or microfiche are in the microform room on the lower level. Those in Government Documents can be retrieved once you fill in a Docs Request form at the Information Desk. Online Journals are available from links on our Library's home page at any Internet Terminal. Use the Journals at the MKP Library link, and check the ‘Linked Resources' tab in our Library's catalog. You may have to go through the Proxy screen. The Journals at the MKP Library link provides up-to-date information on titles, dates, and formats of journals. The following list is a sample of the journals on Labor Relations at the Peterson library.
Academy of Management Executive
Asia Pacific Journal of Management: APJM
Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law
British Journal of Industrial Relations
Industrial Relations
Industrial & Labor Relations Review
Industrial-Organizational Psychologist
International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations
International Labour Review
Journal of Labor Economics
Journal of Labor Research
Journal of Organizational Behavior
Journal of Organizational Behavior Management
Journal of Organizational Excellence
Labor Advocate
Labor History
Labor Law Journal
Labor Studies Journal
Organization: the Interdisciplinary Journal of Organization, Theory, and Society
Organizational Behavior and Human Performance.
Public Administration Review
World of Work The Magazine of the ILO
Databases are available via links on the library's home page. You will use the Proxy Connection: to log in, your username is your UNH ID number, which is the 16-digit number at the bottom of your UNH photo ID. Only currently registered students, faculty and staff are eligible to use our subscription databases.
The following lists some databases useful to students studying Labor Relations. For a complete list of our electronic resources, see our guide to electronic resources, available at the Information Desk and online at our web page.
General, or multi-disciplinary databases such as: Academic OneFile, General OneFile, General Reference Center Gold and Expanded Academic ASAP, are useful for all fields. Note the ‘refereed' or ‘peer reviewed' option to limit your search to scholarly publications.
IRIS (Illinois Researcher Information Service) is a database of funding and scholarship opportunities in all fields with an e-mail alert service. See our guide for more.
ABI/INFORM databases from ProQuest and iCONN. Note that you can simultaneously search all the databases we get from ProQuest, or select only the ones you want to search, using the ‘databases selected' link & making your choices. These are composed of the following:
ABI/INFORM Dateline. 1985-present, provides news, analysis and information on businesses and regional market areas from hard-to-find local and regional publications.
ABI/INFORM Global. 1971- present. Abstracts and some full text from over 1,900 national and international business and management journals, as well as company profiles with executive profiles. Includes the full text of the Wall Street Journal from 1984 on. (Full text of the Wall Street Journal is also available in ProQuest's Newspaper collections - current and historical.)
ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry. 1971-present, provides articles and information from over 750 periodical publications with a trade and industry focus. Include articles on labor relations.
BNA Human Resources Library. The full text, online version of the print sources. You can search state and federal laws and regulations. Includes analysis, commentary, and a pool of questions answered by their Human Resources experts. Includes some information on workplace safety policies etc.
Business and Company Resource Center from iCONN. A Gale database of company profiles, brand information, market intelligence, rankings, financials, investment reports, histories and industry news going back twenty years. Some full text. Includes articles on labor relations.
Conference Board Online. The full text, online version of this print source of information on economic and business issues, including labor/management relations. See our guide for more.
Criminal Justice Periodicals Index from ProQuest. 1981-present. Citations, abstracts, some full text and images. Indexes academic and trade publications on the topic of criminal justice. Includes labor relations issues for practitioners in these fields.
Engineering Village2. A comprehensive multidisciplinary database of engineering information, containing references to over 5,000 engineering journals and conferences. Includes articles on labor relations.
FirstSearch provides access to databases such as Dissertations from North America and Europe, Books in Print and many more. Available in the library only. Ask at the Information Desk for password, if needed.
HeinOnline Legal Periodicals. Full text back to the late 1800s of many top national and international legal journals as well as the Federal Register from the first issue, 1936 to current, or search the Fair Labor Relations Act.
NBER Working Papers. National Bureau of Economic Research Publications that can be downloaded. We have the print publications in the library, which can be borrowed.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Full text, searchable images of the Los Angeles Times, 1881-1986, not all issues; New York Times, Sep 1851 to 2004. These databases cannot be searched simultaneously with other ProQuest databases. Later coverage of these newspapers is provided by the Newspaper Collection from ProQuest, which must be searched separately from this one.
ProQuest Newspapers. Full text coverage of the Boston Globe from 1980- current; Christian Science Monitor, 1988 on; Hartford Courant, 1992 on; Los Angeles Times, 1985 on; New York Times, 1980-current; Wall Street Journal 1984 on; Washington Post, 1987 on.
Psychology databases include articles on management and labor relations: PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. Coverage spans 1894 to present; nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. PsycINFO , from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.4 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s.
Note that you can simultaneously search all psychology databases, or only the ones you want, by choosing the EBSCOHost icon/link, then ‘All EBSCOHost databases', and then making your selection. A citation in any EBSCOHost database links to the full text when it is available in any other EBSCOHost database we buy. PsycINFO indexes most of the material available in the other two psychology databases, so a search in PsycINFO is close to a search in all three.
The Internet provides much valuable information. As with any material you use, evaluate the sources you use. This can be challenging with the Internet, since it is not always readily apparent who is responsible for the information on a particular page found via a Google or Yahoo! search. Look for a home page and 'About us' link. Consider how qualified the organization or person is to provide the information, whether they have an agenda or particular point of view, how up-to-date the information is, and how it affects the point you want to make. The following is a short list of web sites of interest to labor relations students and practitioners. Most include links to additional resources.
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Includes information on working conditions, wages, inflation, consumer index, safety issues.
FirstGov is the gateway to government information on the Internet. Use the search box or site index. You can limit your search to State or Federal sites.
Statistics: Fedstats links to U.S. government statistics, and includes links to national and international sites. For occupational health statistics, choose from among the ‘A-Z' topics links, or from the drop down box chose the topics ‘Labor' and ‘Employment.'
Voice of the Shuttle: Postindustrial Business Theory: Labor Relations, Statistics, & History Selected Internet resources.
Government Sites: Laws and Regulatory Agencies followed by Labor Information
Connecticut State Board of Labor Relations site includes the full text of Board decisions back to 1980. Information on the Connecticut State Board of Labor Relations Act is also available.
The Department of Labor's site. Use the search box, A-Z index, or organized links along the right hand side, such as ‘Compliance Assistance.' Summary of the major laws of the Department of Labor are here.
Federal Labor Relations Authority is the agency responsible for administering labor-management relations for U.S. Federal employees.
GPO Access (The Government Printing Office's site) provides direct links to the U.S. Code, Code of Federal Regulations, and the Federal Register online back to 1994. We have the Federal Register back to the first issue in 1936 in the HeinOnline legal database, and print, fiche and online versions in the library. GPO Access also links to Agency web sites.
The National Labor Relations Board site provides links to many online publications, regulations, forms etc. The ‘Publications' link provides online access to several manuals.
Regulations.Gov In 2003 the first generation of Regulations.gov was launched to provide the public with one-stop Web access to all proposed federal regulations and to give the public the ability to submit comments on all federal agencies' rulemakings.
The State of Connecticut site. Search the site or link to the CT Department of Labor site directly - look for links to ‘Wage and Workplace Matters.'
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Their self-described mission: "The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics."
Associations, Organizations & Institutions
Cornell University's Industrial and Labor Relations School's Library provides access to an index of resources that include other web sites, including many freely available government web sites, and some online documents.
Institute of Industrial Relations is an "Organized Research Unit" of the University of California at Berkeley. IRLE was founded in 1945. There is a wealth of information about IRLE and its programs on this server. The principal entry points for further information are the Programs, Publications and The Library. Faculty working papers are also available.
The International Labor Organization (ILO) is the tripartite UN agency that brings together governments, employers and workers of its member states in common action to promote decent work throughout the world.
Labor and Employment Relations Association "is the singular organization in the country where professionals interested in all aspects of labor and employment relations network to share ideas and learn about new developments, issues, and practices in the field. Founded in 1947 as the Industrial Relations Research Association (IRRA), the National LERA provides a unique forum where the views of representatives of labor, management, government and academics, advocates and neutrals are welcome."
U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of International Labor Affairs is working together with other U.S. Government agencies to create a more stable, secure, and prosperous international economic system in which all workers can achieve greater economic security, share in the benefits of increased international trade, and have safer and healthier workplaces where the basic rights of workers and children are respected and protected.
Writing the Paper and Citing Your Research
The Library produces guides to several citation styles. A general style guide includes links to additional online guides. Library guides are available near the Information Desk and online from our web page. The advantage of an online version is that you can link directly to web sites we list. The Center for Learning Resources in Maxcy Hall Room 108 also assists students writing papers.
The Career Services Center in Maxcy Hall 205 offers help with the job search process and with writing resumes and cover letters. Many of the sites listed above include job related links. A good rule of thumb is to find the job page of the local public library's site. Here are the New Haven Free Public Library's job related links.
USA Jobs is the official U.S. Federal Government's site for those seeking employment with the Federal Government. Besides posting Federal Government positions, the site includes information on student jobs, scholarships, skills testing, and help with resumes.
Any questions? Come to the Information Desk, call us at (203) 932-7189,
or e-mail us.
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