Adam Smith
Adam Smith emphasized the importance of specialization and division of labor. This page contains links to sites that provide information about Adam Smith and his work. Online editions of his major works are available from this page.

AFL-CIO
The home page of the largest U.S. association of trade and industrial unions.

Gary Becker
This page contains links to information about Gary Becker, the 1992 Nobel Laureate in economics, who is best known for his seminal research on human capital theory.

Bureau of Labor Statistics
A source of extensive data on U.S. labor market conditions.

Collective Bargaining Agreements
This BLS page contains statistics on strike activity and information on collective bargaining agreements.

Dunlop Commission Report
A report on a range of issues related to labor-management relations.

Labor-Oriented Internet Resources
An extensive collection of links to labor-oriented resources on the internet (provided by the Institute of Industrial Relations Library at the University of California, Berkeley).

National Labor Relations Board
This site contains information about the government agency charged with conducting union certification elections and investigating unfair labor practices.

National Center for Educational Statistics
Visit this site to find information about the relationship between education and earnings. In particular, you may wish to browse through the online copy of the 2000 Digest of Educational Statistics.

Value of the Federal Minimum Wage, 1938-1997
An examination of the real minimum wage during this period (expressed in 1996 dollars). The chart and table on this page provides a good illustration of the difference between nominal and real wages