Labor and Employment: The American Worker

This database contains thousands of titles on the American workplace, covering the labor rights movement in the 19th century to the workplace of today.

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Using the Main Search Bar

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Using Advanced Search

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About Venn Diagram Search

Venn Diagram Search offers a visual representation of how search terms interact with each other
Helps users both refine their current search terms and become better researchers going forward
Find the link to Venn Diagram Search on the Advanced Search page
Searches are constructed by stringing together multiple terms separated by the Boolean operator "AND," with phrases grouped together in quotation marks

Results on the right side of the page pertain to the search as we originally constructed it (represented by the red slice in the center of the intersecting circles)
Select Clear for the ability to hover over the different segments of the diagram and see all possible search term combinations from our original query.
In our example, we can see results for:
- wages AND inflation
- inflation AND women
- wages AND women
- the terms wages, inflation and women individually
Sort the results, save or export, turn to the specific page of a result, or start at the beginning of a given title

A venn diagram of three intersecting circles representing the terms "inflation," "women," and "wages"