SUNY Empire Library Webpages & Guides: Labor Studies: Articles

Searching for your topic? Use databases.

SocINDEX with Full-text
This database is useful for looking up all-scholarly articles on topics having to do with workplace discrimination, working conditions, employment issues in society, and how people fit in and interact at work.
Business Source Complete
While this database has a business perspective, it is useful for looking up articles about human resources topics related to labor studies.
America: History & Life
This database is especially useful for researching labor history in the United States.
Historical Abstracts
This database is useful for researching labor history worldwide.
JSTOR
Unlike most databases, JSTOR has plenty of content published before the 1990s, but it does not have full-text for the most recent 2-3 years. Articles in all subjects, but especially good for history, area studies, the arts and humanities, mathematics, environmental science, etc. SUNY Empire Login Required
- Help creating a permalink in JSTOR
- Help using JSTOR

In scholarly/peer reviewed articles:

Some databases have all scholarly material. Others have an option to search for only scholarly/peer-reviewed articles.

Citing Your Sources
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Combine keywords
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Identify Keywords
Shows you how to come up with keywords to search in library databases, the e-book catalog, even Google.

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