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Featured Reference Books

The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History by Aaron Brenner (Editor); Benjamin Day (Editor); Immanuel Ness (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780765613301
Publication Date: 2009
Rethinking Work by Reference Shelf; H. W. Wilson
Call Number: HD8066 .R48 2016
ISBN: 9781682170663
Publication Date: 2016
Encyclopedia of American Social Movements by Immanuel Ness (Editor)
Call Number: DS119.7 .E5653 2008 v.1-3 (Reference, 1st floor)
ISBN: 0765680459
Publication Date: 2004
The American Labor Movement by Paul F. Taylor
Call Number: HD6508 .T39 1993 (3rd floor)
ISBN: 9780874366877
Publication Date: 1993
Labor Leaders in America by Melvyn Dubofsky (Editor); Warren R. Van Tine (Editor)
Call Number: HD8073.A1 L33 1986 (3rd floor)
ISBN: 9780252013270
Publication Date: 1990
Robert's Dictionary of Industrial Relations by Industrial Relation Staff
Call Number: HD4839 .R612 1994 (3rd floor)
ISBN: 0871797771
Publication Date: 1994

Reference Databases

Use these scholarly encyclopedias to get an overview of your topic, find background information, and identify key people, events and dates. Many of the articles also have lists of "Related Reading" that will very likely be relevant to your research.

Sage eReference
Provides online full-text access to reference books on a variety of topics published by Sage Publications.
Oxford Reference Online: Premium
Provides full-text for more than 100 dictionaries and other reference books, including English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian dictionaries. Also, thesauri, quotations, and reference sources in many subject areas, including the Arts, Business, History, Literature, Politics, Religion, and the Sciences.

Encyclopedia of Economic & Business History
Published by the Economic History Association, meant to provide students with high quality reference articles written by experts, screened by a group of authorities, and carefully edited.

Useful Websites

American Labor Studies Center
A nonprofit organization that seeks to create, collect and disseminate labor history and labor studies curriculum materials and resources to teachers nationwide.
Labor History Links
A comprehensive bibliography of information, documents and links of U.S. labor history sites developed by the Labor and Working Class History Association.
Labor History: Digital Resources
A research guide to online U.S. labor history resources put together by NYU's Tamiment Library. Items on other tabs may only be available to NYU students, but items on this "Digital Resources" tab are all open resources on the web, available to anyone