For contemporary information, indexes to newspapers such as the New York Times and general periodical indexes should also be consulted. Call numbers are for the holdings of the Tamiment Library and may not apply to your local library. Alternative Press Index . An index to alternative and radical publications. Currently indexing 235 journals, it also has abstracts from twenty of the journals in a separate section.
Access is only by subject which makes it almost impossible to look for specific articles.
The index is published four times a year. Since 1994, the fourth issue is an annual cumulation. America, History and Life . Done ABC-Clio's standard format, this is an exhaustive index to articles, books, dissertations and reviews in U.S. and Canadian history, which will of course include labor history. Before 1971, these were covered in Historical Abstracts.