Labor and Employment Resources @ Smith Library
Finding reference works on Labor and Employment: in the library & on the Internet (Items coded BLUE not owned by ECSU)
Reference Books in Smith Library,
located on the second floor
American Salaries and Wages Survey
(Gale Research), Career Information Center
reference HD4973.A67 (2003 edition), a "Library Use Only" reference tool, is a compilation of occupations
and their corresponding salaries obtained from hundreds of federal and state
government sources and various trade associations and journals. It provides
extensive compensation information for industry, economic planners and developers,
human resources professionals, employment counselors, job seekers and job changers.
Arranged by primary occupation, this guide presents 40,000 salary statistics
in an eight-column table. Each table provides occupation/type/industry; location;
wage denomination; low, mid and high salary figures; source from which the information
was collected; and date of sources.
Area Wage Survey (Bureau of Labor Statistics). BLS
publishes a large amount of information on the wages, earnings, and benefits
of workers. Generally, this information is categorized in one or more of the
following ways: geographic area (national, regional, State, metropolitan area,
or county data); occupation (such as teacher or carpenter); industry (such as
manufacturing or retail trade). Additional
categories such as age, sex, or union membership may be used in some cases.
Each title in this series documents wages and salaries in different metropolitan
areas around the country. Smith Library
only has a few paper surveys. The State
Library carries this series (see CONSULS) as does Babbidge Library at UCONN/Storrs
(L2.3/2 US Document, some in paper, some on microfiche).
The best way to access the most current data is from the Bureau
of Labor Statistics web page (www.bls.gov ) under the "wages, earnings,
and benefits" link.
Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://stats.bls.gov/
) - see also Bureau of Labor Statistics/Boston
Regional Office (http://www.bls.gov/ro1
). Region I represents six New England states:
County and City Extra (HA203.C68
2005 in the Reference Collection from 1992 with some breaks) is an annual publication
providing up to date statistical information for states, counties, and metropolitan
statistical areas, congressional districts and cities with a population of 25,000
or more in the United States. The volume is organized by type of geographic
area with descriptive statistical tables. Statistics include population, households, vital
statistics, health, crime, education, income, construction and housing, labor
force and employment, agriculture, and land and water. Places, Towns and Townships is a companion
volume.
Dictionary of Occupational Titles (US Dept of Labor, Employment and Training Administration)
is shelved at HB2595.U543 (2003 edition) in the
Economic Report of the President
Transmitted to the Congress (PR42.9 in the U.S.
Government Documents section) is noted for excellent appendices of historical,
comparative economic data and is available online at http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS2401.
Enhanced Occupational Outlook Handbook / by J. Michael Farr, et al., is shelved
at HF5382 .F368 2003 in the
Gale Encyclopedia of
The Encyclopedia presents
1,000 alphabetically arranged entries that range from one paragraph to several
pages in length including: Era Overviews provide broad introductions with sidebars
that detail typical industries, wages and living conditions; Event/Movement
Profiles profile specific developments (Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire, Pullman
strike, the antitrust movement, etc.); Biographies on businesspersons, theorists,
politicians, social reformers and others; Business/Industry Profiles on companies
and industries as well as their effects on daily life and social history; Issue
Profiles discuss key social areas such as child labor, women in the workforce
and immigrants' role in U.S. economics; Geographic Profiles cover the history
of the colonies and states and includes details on immigration and development
of local industry.
Occupational Outlook Handbook (Bureau of Labor Statistics,HF5381.U62 2004/05 in the Career
Information Center reference collection, the most current version is available
online at http://stats.bls.gov/oco/home.htm
) is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide
valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work
lives. Revised every two years, the Handbook describes what workers
do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings,
and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations. See also Occupational Outlook Quarterly, Enhanced
Occupational Outlook Handbook, Selected Characteristics of Occupations Defined
in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles, and the Dictionary of Occupational Titles,
and America's
Top 300 Jobs listed elsewhere in this bibliography.
Places, Towns and Townships (HA203.P62 in the Reference Collection for 1993, 1998,
2003) provides data for all the incorporated areas covered in the most recent
census of population, including Census Designated Places and Minor Civil Divisions.
The volume is divided into three tables: census data for about 34,000
places; census, crime, residential construction and local government finance
data for incorporated places with 10,000 people or more; and economic census
data for incorporated places with 2,500 people or more.
This is a companion volume to County and City Extra.
Statistical Abstract of the
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