POLI 054: The American Worker: Journals and Databases
Topic Formation databases
- CQ ResearcherThe CQ Researcher is the perfect answer for people beginning research on current topics. It covers the most current and controversial issues of the day. From Abortion to War, each issue gives you a comprehensive review of the controversies, historical background, chronology of important events, opposing views from experts on the subject, and extensive bibliographies for additional research.
- Issues and Controversies on FileContains full text articles on current topics of interest, arranged in opposing points of view. It is intended to give users a quick grasp of the essentials of more than 250 controversial news topics. It also contains chronologies, illustrations, maps, tables, sidebars, bibliographies and contact information.
Major Databases
- ProQuest Political Science DatabasePolitical science and international relations journals, dissertations and working papers on topics such as comparative politics, political economy, international development, and environmental policy.
- Sociological AbstractsDatabase covering over 2500 journals in sociology, both theoretical and applied, and related disciplines including anthropology, economics, education, medicine, community development, philosophy, demography, political science, and social psychology. Articles in 30 different languages from about 55 countries.
- JSTORProvides an image archive of important scholarly journal literature in nearly all the humanities and social sciences disciplines, international and foreign areas studies, and many of the sciences. UNC patrons have access to extensive retrospective holdings of hundreds of journals, starting with the first issues. Excludes the most recent 2-5 years of currently available journals.
- EconLitAccess research articles, citations, and abstracts on economics, accounting, capital markets, econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics, and more. Major index to economic literature from the American Economic Association.
- GenderWatchFull-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues.
Major Peer-Reviewed Journals
Below is a selected list of scholarly journals relevant to some of the suggested policy paper topics. It is by no means an exhaustive list of scholarly journals; see the Database list on the right for much larger collections of articles.
General industrial relations sources
- Work and OccupationsPeer-reviewed journal that provides a broad perspective on the dynamics of the workplace and examines international approaches to work-related issues with an interdisciplinary perspective.
- Labor Studies JournalA multi-disciplinary journal covering issues related to work, workers, labor organizations, and labor studies and worker education in the US and internationally.
- Labor Law JournalReviews the complex relationship of law, labor, management, and the economy.
- Industrial & Labor Relations ReviewIRL publishes interdisciplinary and international research on globalization, capital and labor mobility, inequality, wage setting, unemployment, labor market dynamics, international migration, work organization & tech, human resource management & personnel economics, demographic and ethnic differences in labor markets, workplace conflicts, alternative forms of representation & labor regulation.
- Industrial RelationsInternational perspective on economic, sociological, psychological, political, historical, and legal developments in labor & employment with focus on the implications of change for business, government, and workers.
- Policy StudiesCovers general policy-related issues in sociology, political science & economics.
Problems faced by women workers
- Gender, Work and OrganizationDedicated to advancing theory, research and analytically driven applications concerning gender relations at work, the organization of gender and the gendering of organizations.
- Gender & SocietyPeer-reviewed journal with articles analyzing gender and gendered processes in interactions, organizations, societies, and global and transnational spaces.
Problems faced by minority workers
- Journal of Race & PolicyInterdisciplinary research on race and public policy issues and initiatives in areas such as education, employment, health care, political participation, social welfare, and social justice.
Problems faced by workers with disabilities
- Disability Studies QuarterlyOpen access journal of the Society for Disability Studies (SDS). It is a multidisciplinary and international journal of interest to social scientists, scholars in the humanities, disability rights advocates, creative writers, and others concerned with the issues of people with disabilities.
Newspapers -- Current
- New York Times Academic PassNEW! The University Library has partnered with the New York Times to provide currently-enrolled students with access to NYTimes.com and NYTimes.com mobile apps.
- America's NewsAmerica's News is the most comprehensive U.S.newspaper resource available. It provides information on people, issues, and events in the local area or around the country. Updated daily, America's Newspapers offers tens of millions of current and archived full-text articles from newspapers nationwide in a single, fully searchable online database. It includes the complete electronic editions of 827 newspapers - with 75% of these sources not available in any other library database.
- Nexis UniCovers general, regional, and international news, company and financial information, legal information (including law reviews, case law and legal rulings), and other topics such as biographical information. Many files are full-text.
- Newspapers.com (North Carolina Newspapers)Provides access to historic newspapers from the 1700s to the present. UNC users have access to a large selection of North Carolina newspapers through a partnership between Newspapers.com and the UNC University Library.
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Additional Databases
- PAIS IndexA bibliographic index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general. Includes full-text articles.
- Worldwide Political Science AbstractsProvides indexing and abstracts of the international journal literature in political science and related fields, including public administration and policy, law, and international relations.
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