Labor Submission and Review Guidelines

Labor encourages authors to submit manuscripts electronically. Include the article’s title but not the author’s name or institution. Provide the author’s name and institution, as well as a telephone number, in the cover e-mail. Please also confirm that the manuscript has not been submitted elsewhere and will not be before a decision on publication has been made by the editor of Labor. Typically, manuscript submissions to Labor should not exceed 10,000 words, including footnotes. And submissions need to conform to the Chicago Manual of Style. Please make sure that your submission also conforms to the Labor style guide.

Direct editorial correspondence and manuscripts for submission to:

Professor Leon Fink
Department of History (MC 198)
University of Illinois at Chicago
913 University Hall
601 S. Morgan St.
Chicago, IL 60607

phone: (312) 996-3141
fax: 312-996-6377 (to the attention of LABOR)
e-mail: labor@uic.edu

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Reviews

Labor reviews monographs, anthologies, films, TV shows, and permanent museum exhibits about the working class history of the Americas (Latin America, the United States, and Canada), as well as books about other parts of the world that we think will be of interest to labor historians anywhere. We do not generally review new editions of books, document readers, memoirs, or temporary exhibits.

Advice to prospective reviewers

We welcome new reviewers! To volunteer, email laborreviews@gmail.com a note listing your fields of expertise and attaching a copy of your CV. Please note, though, that, except under exceptional circumstances, we do not permit people to suggest the books they want to review and we do not publish reviews by graduate students.

One exception to the solicitation rule is review essays. If you have or would like to write a review essay on a subject you think would be important to Labor’s readers, please feel free to contact us. If you’re revising your dissertation for publication and your press wants you to take out the historiographical section, consider sending a version of it to Labor.

Advice to authors

If you want your book to be reviewed by Labor, please be sure we get it. Many presses neglect to send books out to journals for review. Just because you filled out a form listing the journals you want to receive your book doesn’t mean it will happen. And even presses that do regularly send us books often miss books we think are relevant. We recommend that you ask your press to send you the list of journals to which they’ve sent your book and feel free to check with us at laborreviews@gmail.com to make sure we’ve received it.

Reviewers

Please submit your review in a timely fashion. It already takes a long time to get a submitted review published. We’d hate to make it any longer. Please ensure that your review conforms to the Labor reviews style guide. If you need another copy of the Labor copyright form, you can download it here.