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Labor Studies: Journal Articles
Search tools and information sources for researching labor history, labor unions, labor laws, and the sociology of work.
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.
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. Help using JSTOR.Help creating a permalink in JSTOR.
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Know the title of the article you're looking for? Use this tool to search for it (in quotes.) You can also use this tool to search for scholarly articles across multiple databases and in institutional repositories. Help using Google Scholar.
Know the name of the journal? This tool lets you enter the journal's title into the search box and shows you the databases that have articles from that journal.
What are scholarly/peer reviewed articles?
In scholarly/peer reviewed articles:
Author is an expert in the subject
Content is evaluated by other experts before publication
All information sources are cited
Some databases have all scholarly material. Others have an option to search for only scholarly/peer-reviewed articles.
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