What's on This Page
A list of journals organized alphabetically available online or in print about the areas of Industrial Relations and Human Resources. These journals are primarily accessed through the University of Toronto Library website.
Categories on this page include:
- Business management
- Canadian Labour History
- Division of Labour
- Economic History
- Employee Benefits
- Employment
- Global Labour
- Human Resources
- Industrial Management
- Industrial Relations
- Labor Economics
- Labour Laws & Legislation
- Labour Relations
- Management
- Non-Eurocentric
- OECD
- Personnel Management
- Retirement
- Social Conflicts
- Statistics
- Technology
- Training & Development
- Unemployment
- Work
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Labor Law Journal
“The Labor Law Journal contains a survey of important legislative, administrative and judicial developments and original articles on subjects pertaining to legal problems in the labor field.” - Business Source Premier
Volume years available online via electronic access: 1949 - 2021
Subject keywords: Labour Laws & Legislation, Employment Laws and Legislation, Political Science, Labour Relations
Labor Studies Journal
“Labor Studies Journal is a multi-disciplinary journal publishing research on work, workers, labor organizations, and labor studies and worker education in the US and internationally.” - SAGE Journal
Volume years available online via electronic access: 1976 - current
Subject keywords: Industrial Relations, Labour Unions, Labour Education, Labour Organization
Labour Gazette: The Journal of the Department of Labour
"The Labour Gazette is an official publication by the Dominion Government, under the authority of the Conciliation Act, 1900. It is the Journal of the Department of Labor, and is published with a view to the dissemination of accurate statistical and other information relating to labour conditions and kindred subjects. It [was] issued monthly, and the matter contained in its columns is intended to be of service to workmen and others desiring reliable data in regard to questions especially affecting labour, and such topics as have a bearing on the status and well-being of the industrial classes of Canada. The Gazette will not be concerned with mere questions of opinion, nor will it be the medium for the expression of individual views. It is an official publication, and as such will seek to record only suck statements of fact, and such collections of statistics, as are believed to be trustworthy." - Labour Gazette, Vol. I - No. 1.
Volume years available online via electronic access: 1900 - 1978
Volume years currently available in microfilm at the IRHR Library: v. 1 (1901)-v. 6 (1906); v. 17 (1917)-v. 21 (1921); v. 38 (1938)-v. 49 (1949); paper: v. 3 (1902-1903); v. 17 (1916-1917); v. 21 (1921)-v. 28 (1938); v. 50 (1950)-v. 12 (1978).
Subject keywords: Labour Laws & Legislation, Employment Laws and Legislation, Political Science, Labour Relations
Labour History
“Labour History is the premier outlet for refereed, scholarly articles in the fields of social and labour history in Australasia. Labour History also publishes essays, reviews, and memoirs that reflect the involvement of labour historians in the making of history. It examines issues such as labour politics, trade unions, management labour practices, co-operatives, gender and ethnicity.” - JSTOR
Volume years available online via electronic access: 1963 - 2022
Subject keywords: Labour Politics, Trade Unions, Management Labour Practices, Labour History
Labour, Capital and Society / Travail, capital et société
"LABOUR, Capital and Society (LC&S) is an interdisciplinary, bilingual, refereed journal on labour issues concerning the regions of Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Middle East. Established in 1979, LC&S publishes research and theoretical material by Canadians and researchers in regions of the South." - LC&S
Volume years available online via electronic access: 1979 - Moving Wall embargo
Volume years currently available via journal's website: 2002 - current
Former Titles:
Manpower and unemployment research (1976-1978)
Manpower and Unemployment Research in Africa (1968-1975)
Subject keywords: Globalization & Labour, Labour Migration, Poverty and Marginalization, Labour Relations
Labour/ Le Travail
“Labour = Le travail carries many important articles in the field of working-class history, industrial sociology, labour economics, and labour relations. Although primarily interested in a historical perspective on Canadian workers, the journal is interdisciplinary in scope. In addition to articles, the journal features documents, conference reports, an annual bibliography of materials in Canadian labour studies, review essays, and reviews. While the main focus of the journal's articles is Canadian, the review essays and reviews consider international work of interest to Canadian labour studies.” - Project Muse
Volume years available online via electronic access: 1997 - 2022
Volume years currently available in print at the IRHR Library: SERIALS - LAB1 (volume 4, no. 4)
Subject keywords: Canadian Labour History, Business and Economic History, Business Management, Labour Relations
Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations
“LABOUR provides a forum for analysis and debate on issues concerning labour economics and industrial relations. The Journal publishes high quality contributions which combine economic theory and statistical methodology in order to analyse behaviour, institutions and policies relevant to the labour market.” - Wiley Online Library
Volume years available online via electronic access: 1987 - 2023
Subject keywords: Labour Economics, Industrial Relations, Human Resources, Labour Markets
Leadership Quarterly
"The Leadership Quarterly is a social-science journal dedicated to advancing our understanding of leadership as a phenomenon, how to study it, as well as its practical implications." - Science Driect
Volume years available online via electronic access: 1990 - 2022
Subject keywords: Leadership, Management, Economics, Sociology
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Management Review
"Services as an independent forum for authoritative views on the issues of business and management published by the American Management Association." - Business Source Premier
Volume years available online via electronic access: 1914 - 2000
Subject keywords: Personnel Management, Industrial Management, Technical Education
Monthly Labor Review
“A monthly publication of the Bureau of Labor Statistics that contains analytical articles on employment and unemployment, prices, compensation, working conditions, productivity, and other topics. Includes tables of current labor statistics, book reviews, and occasional columns on workplace performance and the law at work. Business and academic interest.” - GALE
Volume years available online via electronic access: 1918 - 2023
Subject keywords: Human Resources Management, Labor Economics, Labor Relations, Business Management
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New Technology, Work and Employment
"New Technology Work and Employment publishes theoretically informed, critical scholarly analysis of the changing nature of work and employment, and its relationship to technology and technological developments. The journal promotes enhanced analysis of the shifting contours of work and employment and encourages a critical understanding of the multiple dimensions of technological change in the workplace, the labour market and employment more generally." Wiley Online Library
Volume years available online via electronic access: 1997 - current
Volume years currently available in print at the IRHR Library: STACKS; HC79T4 N45 (v.1 (1986) - v. 27 (2012)]
Subject keywords: Technology, Work, Employment, Innovation
New Zealand Journal of Industrial Relations
"The New Zealand Journal of Industrial Relations was published between 1977 and 2003. In 2004 it was renamed the New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations. The Journal was published by the Industrial Relations Society of New Zealand (1977-1980), the New Zealand Institute for Industrial Relations Research Inc (1981-1991) and the Foundation for Industrial Relations Research and Education (1992-2003). However, views expressed by contributors to the Journal are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views either of the editors or of the publishers. Subsequent issues of the Journal and of the New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations are available from a range of sources including Proquest and ABI/Inform." - New Zealand Journal of Industrial Relations
Volume years available online via electronic access: 1976 - 1996
Subject keywords: Industrial Relations
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OECD Economic Outlook
"The OECD Economic Outlook offers projections for output, employment, prices & current balances over the coming 2 years, based on review of each Member country & the induced effect on each of them of international developments." - Business Source Premier
Volume years available online via electronic access: 1967 - 2022
Volume years currently available in print at the IRHR Library: SERIALS - OEC1
Subject keywords: OECD, International economics, Economic History, Economic Indicators
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Personnel Journal (continued by Workforce)
"A business magazine for leaders in human resources covering all aspects of personnel/human resources management." - Business Source Premier
Volume years available online via electronic access: 1968 - 1996
Subject keywords: Personnel Management
Personnel Psychology
"Personnel Psychology publishes psychological research centered around people at work. Articles span the full range of human resource management and organizational behavior topics, including job analysis, selection and recruiting, training and development, performance appraisal and feedback, compensation and rewards, careers, strategic human resource management, work design, global and cross-cultural issues, organizational climate, work attitudes and behaviors, motivation, teams, and leadership. Research conducted at multiple levels of analysis, including individual, team, and organizational levels, are welcome. Published articles include original empirical research, theory development, meta-analytic reviews, and narrative literature reviews." Wiley Online Library
Volume years available online via electronic access: 1948 - 2023
Subject keywords: Personnel Psychology, Training and Development, Recruitment, Personnel Management
Perspectives on Work
"Perspectives on Work is a premier publication in the field of industrial relations and human resources. Perspectives is aimed at engaging practitioners, policymakers, and researchers in analysis and discussion of how to update workplace practices, institutions, and policies to fit today's economy and workforce needs. It seeks to publish thought-provoking articles and columns that encourage creative thinking about the future of work and the policies and institutions that should govern employment relationships." - JSTOR
Volume years available online via electronic access: 1997 - 2019
Volume years currently available in print at the IRHR Library: SERIALS - PER (1997 - current)
Subject keywords: Business, Economics, Labour, Employment Relations
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Quality Technology and Quantitative Management
"Quality Technology and Quantitative Management is an international refereed journal publishing original work in quality, reliability, queuing service systems, applied statistics (including methodology, data analysis, simulation), and their applications in business and industrial management. The journal publishes both theoretical and applied research articles using statistical methods or presenting new results, which solve or have the potential to solve real-world management problems" - Taylor & Francis Online
Volume years available online via electronic access: 2004 - 2023
Subject keywords: Technology, Industrial Management, Statistics, Business Management
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Strategic Organization
"Strategic Organization is devoted to publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed, discipline-grounded conceptual and empirical research of interest to researchers, teachers, students, and practitioners of strategic management and organization. The journal also aims to be of considerable interest to senior managers in government, industry, and particularly the growing management consulting industry." - SAGE Journals
Volume years available online via electronic access: 2003 - current
Subject keywords: Planning, Management, Organization, Business
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T + D (continues Training and Development)
"T&D is committed to the development and utilization of human potential. Articles on training programs, development skills and counseling and guidance." - Business Source Premier
Volume years available online via electronic access: 2001 - 2014
Subject keywords: Training & Development, Career Guidance, Employees, Human Resources
Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
“Transfer stimulates dialogue between the European trade union movement and the academic and research community. It contributes research findings on issues of strategic relevance for trade unions, in particular with regard to developments at the European level. Transfer publishes original peer-reviewed research on issues such as new developments in industrial relations, social policy, and labour market developments.” - SAGE Journal
Volume years available online via electronic access: 1995 - 2022
Subject keywords: Labour Movement, Industrial Relations, Europe, Labour Market Developments
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Work and Occupations
"Get a broad perspective on the dynamics of the workplace and examine international approaches to work-related issues in this respected journal. Work and Occupations offers distinguished scholarship with an interdisciplinary perspective." - SAGE Journals
Volume years available online via electronic access: 1974 - 2023
Subject keywords: Emotion, Work, Labour, Occupations
Work Organisation, Labour, and Globalisation
"This journal aims to bring together insights from political economy, the sociology of work, organisational theory, economic geography, development studies, industrial relations, comparative social policy, communications studies, technology policy and gender studies, to create a single authoritative source of information on the new global division of labour, combining theoretical analysis with the results of empirical research in a way that is accessible both to the research community and to policy makers." - Pluto Journals
Volume years available online via electronic access: 2015 - 2021
Subject keywords: Work, Workers, Division of Labour, Globalization
Work, Aging and Retirement
"Work, Aging and Retirement provides a peer-reviewed forum for evidence-based, translational research on worker aging and retirement, with the goal of enhancing understanding of these phenomena. Work, Aging and Retirement reflects a broad community of professionals in the fields of psychology, sociology, economics, gerontology, business and management, and industrial labor relations. It aims to publish high-quality research that will generate interest from public policy makers, organizational decision makers, human resource professionals, and older worker advocates for the policy implications that these papers bear. Work, Aging and Retirement encourages an international perspective, publishing research and findings from various countries, regions, and entities that are governed by different socio-economic policies." - Oxford Academic
Volume years available online via electronic access: 2015 - current
Subject keywords: Retirement, Post-Retirement Employment, Work, Aging
Work, Employment and Society
"Work, Employment and Society analyses all forms of work and their relation to wider social processes and structures, and to quality of life. It embraces the study of the labour process; industrial relations; changes in labour markets; and the gender and domestic divisions of labour. It supports contemporary, historical and comparative studies and both qualitative and quantitative methodologies." - SAGE Journals
Volume years available online via electronic access: 1987 - 2003
Subject keywords: Unpaid Labour, Informal Economy, Employment, Unemployment
Workers of the World: International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflict
"Workers of the World: International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflict aims to stimulate global studies on labor and social conflicts in an interdisciplinary, global, long term historical and non-Eurocentric perspective. It intends to move away from traditional forms of methodological nationalism and conjectural studies, adopting an explicitly critical and interdisciplinary perspective." - Workers of the World
Past Volume years available online: 2012-2018
Current Volume available from publisher.
Subject keywords: Non-Eurocentric, Global Labour Studies, Social Conflicts
Workforce (continues Personnel Journal) (continued by Workforce Management, 2003 -)
"A business magazine for leaders in human resources covering all aspects of personnel/human resources management." - Business Source Premier
Volume years available online via electronic access: 1997 - 2003
Subject keywords: Personnel Management, Employee Benefits, Human Resources, Business Management
Workforce Management (continues Workforce)
"A business magazine for leaders in human resources covering all aspects of personnel/human resources management." - Business Source Premier
Volume years available online via electronic access: 2003 - 2013
Subject keywords: Personnel Management, Employee Benefits, Human Resources, Business Management
Workspan: The Magazine of WorldatWork
"workspan is published 12 times a year by WorldatWork as a paid membership benefit. This monthly resource covers trends and contemporary issues for the purpose of advancing total rewards management, theory, knowledge and practice. Compensation, benefits, work-life and HR professionals value workspan content to assist in the development of programs and practices that lead to superior organizational performance" - Muck Rack
Volume years available online via electronic access: 1992 - 2020
Subject keywords: Compensation, Wages, Management, Benefits
World of Work Magazine (International Labour Organization)
"The International Labour Organization (ILO) is the United Nations agency for the world of work. It was founded on the conviction that universal and lasting peace can be established only if it is based on social justice. [...] The ILO undertakes research and data collection across the range of world of work topics. It publishes flagship reports and a wide range of publications and working papers. Its globally renowned set of statistical databases are maintained and updated with nationally sourced labour market data." - ILO Brochure
Volume years available online via electronic access: 2010 - 2019
Subject keywords: Work, International