Contact info

If you need assistance with library research, please email Moninder Lalli moninder_lalli@sfu.ca, Librarian for Labour Studies, or use the Ask a Librarian link.

Research process

Start Your Research Here - This page gives you an overview of the research process, or in other words how to find materials for your essay.

Selected encyclopedias and handbooks

Use encyclopedias, dictionaries and handbooks to obtain definitions and overviews of a topic and also to identify key authors.

• Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change
• Encyclopedia of Global Warming Science and Technology
• Handbook of migration and globalisation
• Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society [print]
• Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society [print]
• Routledge international handbook of globalization studies
• Trade Unions in the Green Economy: Working for the Environment [print]

Find books

How to use the Library Catalogue  [guide]

Do a Library Catalogue search to see if the Library owns or provides access to the sources that you've identified. 

For known items it is best to check using "Browse by title" icon.

Search by topic, using Basic or Advanced Search

Note: In the searches below,  you can limited results to "Online Resources only" and "Resource type" of "Books" and "Subjects"

Research topic 

How does  government policy about the environment affect labour? 

• government* AND (policy OR policies) AND (environ* OR climate) AND (labor OR labour OR worker*) AND canad*
      You can limit search results by "Resource type" of "books"

Examples:

• (environm* OR climate) AND (labor OR labour OR worker*) AND Canad*
• Climate Change AND  (labor OR labour)
• green AND (labor OR labour OR worker*) AND Canad*
• "green economy"
• (climate OR environm*) AND (work OR labour)
• "trade unions" AND (green OR environm* OR climate)

Combine different concepts using AND
Combine same concepts using OR
Use quotation marks to search for a phrase
Use brackets for synonyms
Use asterisk (*) for different endings of words

Use pull-down menu and select, "Source Types" as "Books"

Note:  For Catalogue Search, when combining concepts, use CAPITAL letters ( "OR", "AND")

Subject headings

Catalogue Search / Browse then change "Title" to "Subject" and enter your subject term

• Business enterprises -- Environmental aspects
• Climatic changes
• Climatic changes -- Government policy
• Environmental policy.
• Global environmental change -- Government policy
• Green movement - works on the movement that embraces a political culture and lifestyle focused on environmental and other issues, such as ecological accountability, grass roots democracy, and pacifism, often based on a separate political party
• Women and the environment

Find journal articles

How to find journal articles

Search for journal articles on your topic using the databases, below.  From within the database, use the "Get@SFU" icon will to find copies of articles which are not full-text within the database.

ProQuest Sociology Collection  International literature in sociology and social services, and related fields. Searches multiple databases including: Applied Social Science Index, ProQuest Sociology Database, Social Services Abstracts, and Sociological Abstracts.

Social Sciences Full Text  Provides access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language social science journals. Social Sciences Full Text includes full-text articles from hundreds of journals, covering the latest concepts, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.

Environment Complete
Articles on ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.

ScienceDirect    Ebooks and journal articles on science and medicine, from Elsevier.

CBCA Complete  Comprehensive Canadian periodical collection for reference and current events. Publications include scholarly journal articles, trade publications, dissertations, books, newspapers and magazines.

Government documents

Government of Canada

• Environment and Climate Change Canada

Statistics Canada - the major statistical gathering agency of the federal government. It publishes the "whole range of statistics on the economic and social activities of the Canadian people". There are daily, weekly, quarterly, annual and irregular publications. They also publish the Census of Canada at five-year intervals.

• Labour
  • how many people are employed or unemployed; the unemployment rate; which industries or occupations people work in; the hours they work; commuting patterns; wage and non-wage benefits; job training; labour mobility;
  • work absences; unionization; unpaid work; and other topics. Also includes geographic and demographic characteristics.
• Labour Market Overview
• Search: labour and climate
  • Inuit participation in the wage and land-based economies in Inuit Nunangat (89-653-X2019003)
• Pipelines

USA.gov A centralized place to find information from local, state, and U.S. Government Agency websites.

• Environmental Protection Agency
• Search: labor
  • Climate Action Benefits: Labor

International Labour Organiazation (ILO)

• Green jobs

Google search tips

site:.gov intitle:(labor OR labour OR jobs) intitle:climate

Presentation skills and writing help

See the Student Learning Commons for expert and friendly help with academic writing, learning, and study strategies.

• Resources on developing your participation skills
• Resources to help you improve your presentation skills

Library guides

• Library Research Tutorials. Animated tutorials on search techniques for finding books and journal articles.
• Annotated bibliographies
• Evaluating sources
• How to find journal articles
• Library Catalogue search guide
• What is a scholarly (or peer-reviewed) journal?
• What is plagiarism?  Guide to common forms of plagiarism and how to avoid them