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Several books related to industrial relations are discussed. Labor relations in Europe are discussed in "Between Bargaining and Politics: An Introduction to European Labor Relations," by Hans Slomp. Author Andrew Bard Schmookler employed a fictional Internet conversation for readers in the book "Debating the Good Society: A Quest to Bridge America's Moral Divide". Arguments on the exemplification of political economy are discussed in the book "Digital Capitalism: Networking the Global Market System," by Dan Schiller.

The article focuses on various recent publications, selected by the Institute of Industrial Relations Library University of California at Berkeley. In "The CIO, 1935-1955," Robert H. Zieger charts the rise of this industrial union movement, from the founding of the CIO by John L. Lewis in 1935 to its merger under Walter Reuther with the American Federation of Labor in 1955. In "Cold War in the Working Class: The Rise and Decline of the United Electrical Workers," by Ronald L. Filippelli and Mark D. McColloch, authors tell the story of the rise and decline of the United Electrical Workers from 1933 to 1990. In "Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965," Annelise Orleck takes her four subjects from turbulent, turn-of-the-century Eastern Europe to the radical ferment of New York's Lower East Side and the gaslit tenements where young women workers studied together. In "Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farm Workers, Cotton, and the New Deal," Devra Weber explores the complex employment setting and high human costs that have marked the growth of large-scale California agribusiness.

The article reviews several web sites, including one for the U.S. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), which is accessible at http://www.recovery.gov/Pages/home.aspx, the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers, which can be found at http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/cea, and the website for the U.S. Employee Benefits Security Administration, Consumer Information on Health Plans can be found at http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/consumer_info_health.html.

This article presents a list of Internet resources selected by the Institute of Industrial Relations Library at the University of California at Berkeley. A Web site for the Center for Immigration Studies is listed (http://www.cis.org/index.cgi). The Center for Immigration Studies is an independent nonprofit research organization that focuses exclusively on research and policy analysis of the economic, social, demographic, and fiscal impacts of immigration on the United States. The article also lists the Web site of the Center for Migration Studies (http://cmsny.org/index.htm).

The article gives information about several Web sites including a site for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 at http://www.recovery.gov/, the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN) at http://www.ssdan.net, and the U.S. Department of Labor at http://www.dol.gov/.

The article provides information on several Internet resources about industrial relations. The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives of the Cornell University Catherwood Library Kheel Center was founded in 1949. Its ongoing charge is to preserve original source materials of U.S. labor unions, management theory and the history of employees at the workplace. The Tamiment Library and Roger F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University have a collection that originated from the library of Rand School of Social Science. The University of Pittsburgh Archives Service Center consists of several archives, including the Archives of Industrial Society and the Dick Thornburgh Archives. The Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University houses the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, the Wayne State University Archives and the Douglas Fraser Center for Workplace Issues. The Youngstown Historical Center of Industry & Labor collects the historical materials that document the impact of the iron and steel industry on Youngstown and other Mahoning Valley, Ohio communities.

The article presents information on websites that provides information on labor markets. The websites have been selected by the Institute of Industrial Relations Library University of California, Berkeley, California. Some of the websites are http://www.state.ar.us/esd/labormarketinformation.htm; http://www.calmis.ca.gov; http://lmi.ides.state.il.us; and http://www.wa.gov/esd/lmea/.

An annotated list of Internet resources is provided, as selected by the Institute of Industrial Relations Library at the University of California in Berkeley. Centre for Labour Market and Social Research; Centre for Economic Performance; The Pensions Institute; CEPR Labor Market Imperfections Group; Panel Study of Income Dynamics. This last Web site describes the Panel Study of Income Dynamics' longitudinal study of a representative sample of United States individuals and the family unit in which they reside. It emphasizes the dynamic aspects of economic and demographic behavior, but its content is broad, including sociological and psychological measures. Its central focus on the data is economic and demographic, with substantial detail on income sources and amount, employment, family composition changes and residential location.