New Labor Forum
New Labor Forum (ISSN 1095-7960, E-ISSN 1557-2978) is a national labor journal of cutting-edge debate, analysis and new ideas. New Labor Forum is published by the CUNY Joseph S. Murphy Institute and SAGE Press, three times a year, in January, May, and September. Founded in 1997, the journal provides a place for labor and its allies to consider vital research, debate strategy, and test new ideas.
| Discipline | Industrial relations, Sociology, Political Science labor movement worker rights |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Paula Finn |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1997–present |
| Publisher | Sage Publishing (United States of America) |
| Frequency | Triannual |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | New Labor Forum |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 1095-7960 (print) 1557-2978 (web) |
| LCCN | 98660553 |
| JSTOR | 10957960 |
| OCLC no. | 761548706 |
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Overview
In its over two decades of publication, articles in the journal have covered the full range of challenges that confront workers and working-class communities.
On the domestic side, these issues have included:
- the dramatic growth of low wage service and precarious work
- the decline of manufacturing
- corporate domination in U.S. politics
- the privatization of public education
- the persistence of black unemployment at double or near double the rate for whites
- mass incarceration
- immigration raids and the super exploitation of immigrant workers
- sexual harassment at work
- pay inequity
- LGBTQ workplace discrimination
- labor’s relationship to the American empire and wars without end
- the climate change crisis.
Internationally, contributors to the journal have examined:
- organized labor and economic justice in post-Apartheid South Africa
- the rise and fall of the pink tide in Latin America
- efforts to organize among informal workers throughout the global south, and
- the rise of economic nationalism throughout Europe.
The journal provides a place for labor and its allies to introduce new ideas and debate old concepts. Recent contributors include: Andy Stern, Frances Fox Piven, Bill Fletcher, David Roediger, JoAnn Wypijewski, Jonathan Tasini, Ruth Milkman, and Maria Elena Durazo. Its editorial board is composed of a number of notable scholars, including Kate Bronfenbrenner, Joshua Freeman, and Paul Buhle. Each issue of the journal also includes a "Books and the Arts" section that publishes poetry and book/film reviews.
New Labor Forum has a subscription base of approximately 7,000 individuals and institutions.
New Labor Forum is often considered a critical journal of thought within the American labor movement. For example, its January 2006 issue contained articles linked to the first-of-its-kind (and controversial) Global Unions Conference.[1] In the winter of 2007, Robert Pollin, co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, began a regular column in New Labor Forum titled "Economic Prospects."[2] The AFL-CIO has cited New Labor Forum,[3] although the magazine is often critical of that labor federation.[4] Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation magazine, called the journal "invaluable".[5]
References
- "Important Upcoming Issue of New Labor Forum." H-Net.org. January 3, 2006; "First-of-Its Kind New York City Conference to Look at Labor's Responses to Globalization." Cornell Chronicle. February 1, 2006; Jennifer Lee. "French Activist Denied Entry to United States, Cornell Says." New York Times. February 9, 2006.
- "New Labor Forum: Economic Prospects." PERI in the News. No date.
- James Parks. "The U.S. Needs Manufacturing Jobs—So Does the Middle Class." AFL-CIO Blog. June 20, 2006.
- Jane Slaughter. "Rumblings on the Left: Sweeney's Election Boosted Hopes and Magazines." Metro Times. January 28, 1998.
- Katrina vanden Heuvel "Is This a Watershed Moment?" Editor's Cut Blog. TheNation.com March 27, 2008.
External links
- New Labor Forum – official website