Pease ask a reference librarian for assistance at any time. We will be glad to help!
Use reference sources for background information, broad overviews and summaries. The reference collection includes general and subject dictionaries and encyclopedias, biographies, directories, almanacs, atlases, etc. Many also contain bibliographies for further research. Reference books cannot be checked out from the library but may be photocopied. The suggested articles are just a few of the articles that you can find by using the table of contents or index of each encyclopedia.
Encyclopedia Americana Ref AE5.E333 2005 (online)
New Encyclopedia Britannica Ref.AE.5.E363 2002
The World Book Encyclopedia Ref AE5.W55 2005
Alternative Income Estimates in the United States 2003 Ref HC110.15.A48 2005
Alternative Poverty Estimates in the United States:2003 Ref HC110.P6.A48 2005
Analysis of the Upcoming Release of 2003 Data on Income, Poverty, & Health Insurance Ref HC110.I5.A53 2004
Areas with Concentrated Poverty: 1999 Ref HC110.P6.A74 2005
Brief Look at Postwar U.S. Income Inequality Ref HC110.I5.W45 1996
Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society Ref HQ767.84.E53 2003
Encyclopedia Latina Ref E184.S75.E587 2005
Encyclopedia of Family Life Ref HQ534.E53 1999
Encyclopedia of Women and Gender: Sex Similarities & Differences & the Impact of Society on Gender Ref HQ1115.E43 2001
An Eyewitness History: Working In America Ref HD8066.R44 2000
Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History Ref HC102.G35 1999
Health Insurance Coverage in the United States Ref RA412.2.M6 2004
Labor Conflict in the United States: An Encyclopedia Ref HD5324.L32 1990
Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2003 Ref HC110.I5.D47 2003
Making Ends Meet Ref HD.4919.C2.M35 2003
The Mexican American Experience: An Encyclopedia Ref E184.M5.M4535 2003
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History Ref HC15.O94 2003
Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2004-2005 Ref HA202.U58.S7 2004
Work In America: An Encyclopedia of History, Policy, and Society Ref HD8066.W637 2003
Use the library catalog to find materials in the library. This will show you all the books and audiovisual materials both LPC Library and Chabot library own. You can search for a book or video by the author, title, subject, or keyword. A subject search allows you to find books about a topic or a person. In power search you may also LIMIT your search in many ways, for instance by type, "DVD" or type, "video" to find only DVDs or videos.
These are just a few of the titles you can find with subject and keyword searches in the Library Catalog.
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic HN60.D396 2002
Child Labor and Sweatshops: At Issue. HD6231.C455 2006
Class: A Guide through the American Status System HN90.S6.F87 1992
End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time HC59.72.P6.S225 2005
Farmworker's Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America E184.M5.G84 2005
From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States HD8066.M86 2001
Great American Jobs Scam HV6769.L47 2005
Great American JobsScam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation HV6769.L47 2005
Homeless: Opposing Viewpoints HV4493.H644 2002
In Sam We Trust: The Untold Story of Sam Walton and How Wal-Mart is Devouring America HF5429.215.U6.O78 1998
Is the Gap Between the Rich and Poor Growing: At Issue. HC110.I5.I8 2006
Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker HD4901.R67 2005
New Ruthless Economy: Work and Power in the Digital Age HC106.83.H4 2003
Other People's Money: The Corporate Mugging of America HG4930.5.P75 2004
Politics of Public Housing: Black Women's Struggles Against Urban Inequality. HV1447.B25.M55 2004
Poverty and the Homeless: Current Controversies HV4505.P68 2004
Poverty: Opposing Viewpoints HC110.P6.P63 2004
Social Justice: Opposing Viewpoints HN90.S6.S56 2005
Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity RA418.5.S63.M37 2004
The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure HD4904.6.S36 1991
Welfare: Opposing Viewpoints HV91.W467 2003
Which Side Are You On? Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat on Its Back HD8072.5.G46 2004
White-Collar Sweatshop: The Deterioration of Work and Its Rewards in Corporate America HD8039.M39.U563 2001
Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America: My Story CT275.K458525.A3 2005
Working Poor: Invisible in America NC110.P6.S48 2004
These are just a few of the titles you can find with subject and keyword searches in the Library Catalog.
Morgan Spurlock's Living on Minimum Wage On Reserve for ESL
A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs and Freedom MV 23381
Affluenza DVD HF5415.33.U6.A345 2005
American Dream DVD HD5325 .P152 A54 2000
America, What Went Wrong? MV 21814
American Jobs. "...the impact of low-wage foreign competition on American's workers, families and communities. DVD HD5724.A43 2004
Bettina Gray speaks with Luis Valdez MV 22185
Capital and Labor. "Laborers of the period--working under grueling conditions, organizing into unions, and making a stand against the reigning money man of the day." MV 23291
Destination America. Immigrants' "...assimilation was often difficult, [but] they or their descendants prospered and contributed to life in the United States." MV 22053 V. 1- 9
Down and Out in America MV 21673
Escape from Affluenza DVD HF5415.33.U6.E4 1998
Harvest of Shame MV 22211
In the Land of Plenty MV 23376
Is Wal-Mart Good for America? DVD HF5429.215.U6.I7 2004
Living on the Edge MV22702
No grapes MV 23378
On the Edge; America's Working Poor. DVD HC110.P6.O6 2004
The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need. DVD HF5415.33.U6.S36 2003
The Story of Immigration. DVD JV6450.S86 1997
Strikestory: San Francisco before the '34. "100,000 workers in San Francisco staged a general strike that paralyzed the city and eventually resulted in legislation giving workers the right to organize unions." MV 22245
The Ties That Bind: Immigration in the United States MV 22289
Periodicals provide in-depth analyses of events and trends, research studies on particular subjects, and professional literature. Find articles by using an electronic print resource. These databases can be accessed in the LPC Library or from home at the LPC Library Homepage. Good choices for topics with related themes:
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) - largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary database containing full text for more than 4,600 scholarly publications, including more than 3,500 peer-reviewed publications.
CQ Researcher - full text, each issues covers a single topic, well researched articles, (also available in print), suggestions:
Ethnic NewsWatch and GenderWatch (ProQuest) - contains full-text articles of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press and the impact of gender on culture and society
History Reference Center (EBSCO) - contains thousands of citations and full-text articles on history. The database features cover-to-cover full text for more than 650 historical encyclopedias and other non-fiction books. The database also includes full text for more than 50 leading history periodicals.
Opposing Viewpoints (Thomson Gale) - Current topics for information on social issues, including viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles on the facts and the pros and cons of each issue
Try any of the following search terms or topics in the different databases or the indexes of the encyclopedias. Only the most general terms will work in the Library Catalog.
You may want to explore some Internet resources to supplement or enhance your research. Always be cautious of information you find on the Web since the quality of sources varies tremendously on the Internet. It is always a good idea to check the information against another source. As with all information resources, whether in print or on the Internet, you evaluate its quality based on the following criteria:
Use the Librarians' Internet Index (http://www.lii.org).
Keep printouts of your sources, or write out all pertinent information on author, title, publisher, date, or Internet address to identify where you got the information. Follow the format recommended by your instructor or ask a librarian to show you a "style manual." There are links to these instructions on the LPC Library web page: Citation Style Guides, as well as to the online resource, NoodbleBib, a bibliography composer. Please ask a reference librarian for help!
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