EU agency established in 1975 to improve living and working conditions in partnership with governments, employers, trade unions. Useful survey material, especially European Company Survey and European Working Conditions Survey. Also Industrial Relations Country Profiles.

Eurofound provides a range of datasets that support its research into living and working conditions across Europe. These include large-scale surveys conducted in all EU Member States, as well as specialised databases covering topics like restructuring, national policy measures and the platform economy. In addition, Eurofound publishes data visualisations and datasets alongside its research reports, offering access to underlying data that supports its findings.

Oral history interviews and visual resources. Project by TUC Library staff at London Metropolitan University

The UK professional organisation for HR. The CIPD survey reports are a useful series on topics of interest, and most are freely accessible (registration required).

Major series of reports, policies and publications from the Dept. of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy.

Online magazine/blog from Bristol University Press, offering radical and critical thinking on ongoing and emerging issues associated with work and employment

Government quango, has useful statistics & reports relating to mental (stress, depression, etc.) and physical injuries at work.

Special report from the FT.

Researches all aspects of graduate employment.

Major centre for the study of industrial relations. Full text of Warwick papers in IR series available and the online textbook Employment relations matters.

Summary statistics for the UK.

Federation representing 6.5 million unionised workers in the UK. See also the employers' federation - Confederation of British Industry and the conciliation service ACAS.

Research unit based at Lancaster University, free access to many publications and its Data Lab.

Organisation supporting a better work-life balance in the UK.

Periodic survey that was conducted by the previous Dept. for Business, Innovation & Skills, as well as the 2000 Baseline study. Data for all surveys to date is easily searchable within the UK Data Archive.

Initial data on the number of individuals employed on zero hours contracts.

The full text of Research Papers from 1998, compiled for Members of Parliament by the staff of the House of Commons Library.

This led to the banning of exclusivity clauses in zero hours contracts.

Report: 'Zero-hours contracts: myth and reality' To access this report and other publications, you can register for free.,

Report from the Work Foundation.

Blog posts from the Resolution Foundation on Zero hours contracts.

TUC report