Links

University at Buffalo Library

American Studies Introduction (AMS 107) Library Page
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/ugl/class/ams107.html
Evaluation of Web sites, searching tips and selected Web sites
for the class

American Studies (AMS 414) Women and Public Policy Library Page
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/ugl/class/ws414.html
Find articles, find books and Web site links for the course

American Studies Library Guide from UB Lockwood Library
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/lml/Collections/amerhome.html
Databases, Web sites and the Lockwood print collection

American Studies Recommendations

http://cfdev.georgetown.edu/cndls/asw/aswsub.cfm?head1=Working%20Class%20and%20Labor%20Studies
Links to American Studies information sites including class, labor, history,
middle-class studies, unions and more…

http://twist.lib.uiowa.edu/rhorwitz/
A great site and links for American Studies students

Women's Studies Recommendations

Canadian Social Research Links
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net
A virtual resource center for Canadian social program information

Swedish Social Research Links

US Social Research Links

State of the Region Work Equity in 1999 for Niagara Region
http://regional-institute.buffalo.edu/sotr/repo/repo99/09_equi.html
This site is part of the UB State of the Region reports on the
Buffalo-Niagara Region including poverty, housing discrimination,
occupational equity and more

US Labor History
http://www.geocities.com/m_lause.geo/AmLabHist/VL.html
Links to research institutions including foundations, journals,
libraries, archival collections, and more…

US Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://www.bls.gov/
A US government Web site that has anything and
everything you might want to know about labor statistics
in the United States.

International Databases

World Development Gateway
http://developmentgateway.org/
Initiated by the World Bank this Web site has information
ad news about global development projects, statistics and
country overviews.

Library of Congress Country Studies
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
At present there are profiles of 101 countries worldwide.
Includes maps, brief history, statistics and more…

International Labor Organization Database
http://ilis.ilo.org/ilis/engl/ilodoc/eintilo.htm
Retrospective database to 1965 this database contains
oer 40,000 documents on global workplace issues.

Ethnic Studies Web Links
http://www.newschool.edu/library/area.htm
A good basic set of Web links for ethnic studies from
The New School University Fogelman Library

Human Rights and Labor- US and Global

AFL-CIO
http://www.aflcio.org/
The AFL-CIO's mission is to bring social and economic justice to our
nation by enabling working people to have a voice on the job, in
government, in a changing global economy and in their communities

Prostitution Research Education
www.prostitutionresearch.com
A project sponsored by the San Francisco Women's Center

CAST
http://www.trafficked-women.org
The Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (CAST) is an alliance of nonprofit service providers, grassroots advocacy groups and activists dedicated to providing human services and human rights advocacy to victims of modern-day slavery. CAST was founded in 1998 in the aftermath of the El Monte sweatshop case. CAST's mission is to assist persons trafficked for the purpose of forced labor and slavery-like practices and to work toward ending all instances of such human rights violations. CAST is the only organization of its kind in the United States.

Anti-Slavery
http://www.antislavery.org
Anti-Slavery was set up in 1839 with the specific objective of ending slavery throughout the world. Despite many successful campaigns, slavery continues to exist in the 21st century. Anti-Slavery's work is divided among three teams: Programme, Communication and Information, enabling us to work effectively towards achieving our goal of a slave-free world

iAbolish
http://www.iabolish.com
iAbolish is a project of the American Anti-Slavery Group (AASG), a grassroots organization founded in 1993 to combat slavery around the world. AASG has broken a virtual media blackout on slavery and helped free over 45,000 slaves. AASG Directors - including survivors of slavery - have testified to Congress three times and met twice with the Secretary of State. In September of 2000, Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., presented the Boston Freedom Award to AASG President Dr. Charles Jacobs

University of Rhode Island
www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes
Out of the University of Rhode Island, this site has
a good set of links on the trafficking of women.

Women's Human Rights Resources
http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/diana/mainpage.htm
Good set of links on the subject of women/children slavery today

Labor and Community Organizing

Living Wage

Pay Equity

Center for Policy Alternatives Links to Pay Equity
http://www.cfpa.org/issues/workcompensation/equalpay/eqpayres.cfm
Links to Women's Bureau, National Committee on Pay Equity,
and more…

National Committee for Pay Equity

http://www.feminist.com/fairpay/

AFL-CIO
http://www.aflcio.org/
The AFL-CIO's mission is to bring social and economic justice to our
nation by enabling working people to have a voice on the job, in
government, in a changing global economy and in their communities

University at Buffalo site
http://www.panam2001.buffalo.edu
Great site created by the UB library

Uncrowned Queens

http://wings.buffalo.edu/uncrownedqueens/

Zmagazine
http://www.zmag.org
Z is an independent political magazine of critical thinking on political, cultural, social, and economic life in the United States. It sees the racial, sexual, political, and class dimensions of personal life as fundamental to understanding and improving contemporary circumstances and it aims to assist activist efforts to attain a better future.

The Nation.
http://www.thenation.com
On-line magazine dealing with current issues and many archives.