• Concepts
• Articles
• Books
• Web Resources
• Citing your Sources

Concepts

The topic "Do Unions Raise Wages and Cause Unemployment?" will require that you consider many possible issues related to organized labor and industrial relations. Use the following terms or keywords to help sort out your thoughts:

Articles

• To locate articles in general business and economics journals and magazines, use Business Source Premier. , enter keywords and then select appropriate fields.
• To locate articles in local and national newspapers, use LexisNexis Academic.
• For references to articles in scholarly Economics journals, use EconLit from the American Economic Association. Note that you will only see abstracts of the articles; for the full-text, click on which will lead to locations of the journals.
• For references to articles in related subjects, e.g. government, politics, public affairs, use PAIS International. Note that you will only see abstracts of the articles; for the full-text, click on which will lead to locations of the journals.

Books

Use IRIS, our online catalog, to locate books which may help you. Note that there are several ways to search, including TITLE keyword and SUBJECT keyword. Books that are not at Dana may be requested from other libraries with the button.

Web Resources

The recent study, An Empirical Assessment of the Employee Free Choice Act: The Economic Implications by Anne Layne-Farrar, makes a compelling case against the proposed legislation championed by labor unions.

Detailed statistics on Pay and Benefits are compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Detailed statistics on Unemployment are also compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Here is a sampling of resources from selected organizations:

• Center for Union Facts
• Daily Policy Digest: Unions (National Center for Policy Analysis)
• Employee Free Choice Act (AFL/CIO)
• Employment Policies Institute publications
• Labor Policy (Economic Policy Institute)
• Poverty and Income (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Research: Labor (Heritage Foundation)

Citing your Sources

Follow the guidelines for footnotes (not endnotes) with the APA Formatting and Style Guide for print materials and for APA Style: Electronic References