LBST 312: Global Labour Migration

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For Library research help, please contact Moninder Lalli, Librarian for Labour Studies by email moninder_lalli@sfu.ca or Ask a librarian.

Essay  

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.

Background information

Use encyclopedias and handbooks to obtain an overview of a topic and to identify key authors and resources on a topic.

Journal articles

Databases let you easily to search for articles from within scholarly journals for a discipline.

If the full-text of the article is not available within the database then use the "Get@SFU" link to find it or to initiate an inter-library loan request.

Databases

The following databases are useful for finding journal articles which provide a social sciences perspective on international labour migration.  If the

Two databases (below) may be useful for finding the business perspective on labour, working conditions, and unions.

  • Business Source Complete
    • For country profiles, choose "country profile" box, and in keyword search box, enter your terms: France
    • Use "thesaurus" for subject specific term:  e.g. when you look up labor unions, you could choose descriptor words that will make your searches more relevant:
      • DE "LABOR unions & international relations"
         
  • CBCA Complete  Canadian Business & Current Affairs 

For more databases, see Labour Studies Databases

Selected journals

Below are selected scholarly journals with articles on international labour.  When you wish to search for articles on your research topic, start by using the databases listed above.  Each of the databases (above) will index different sets of journals.

Find books in the Library

Library Catalogue search guide

Search the SFU Library Catalogue: Advanced keyword

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 pulldown menu and select, "Source Types" as "Books"

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

Write your research question and identify your "key concepts." 

In the search results, for the books that look relevant, click on their "Subject" to find more books on the same topic.

 

Selected books

Browse by subject

Catalogue Search / Browse, then change "Title" to "Subject" and enter:

Government and statistics

Canadian statistics

  • 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 publishes 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 Force Survey
      -  a monthly survey which measures the current state of the Canadian labour market and is used, among other things, to calculate the national, provincial, territorial and regional employment.

British Columbia

BC Statistics   Check out the tabs at the top
  Citing Government documents, Canadian -- APA style | MLA style | Chicago style

Statista  A statistics portal that integrates statistics from thousands of sources and provides simple exports of both data and charts in multiple formats.

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International

Websites

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Organizations

Canada

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