Labor: Studies in Working-Class History
LABOR
The official journal for the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA)
Winner of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals’ Best New Journal award for 2005
Individual subscribers and institutions with electronic access can view issues of Labor online.
As a site for both historical research and commentary, LABOR hopes to provide a scaffolding for understanding the roots of our current dilemmas. While still engaging social movements and institutions based on industrial work, LABOR gives equal attention to other critical labor systems and social contexts, including agricultural work, slavery, unpaid and domestic labor, the informal sector, and the professions. We look not only to academic historians but also to other scholars, journalists, labor educators, poets, and writer-activists for submissions.
While the scholarly article and book review serve as the foundation of LABOR, the journal contains a number of sections designed to broaden its reach and purpose. The “Contemporary Affairs” section offers labor historians concerned with the search for “a usable past” a platform to address contemporary problems of workers and their unions. “Up for Debate” allows for a focused argument by several scholars on an important theme. “The Common Verse” displays a diversity of poems that give voice to American workers. And a recent new section “Going Public” explores the current state of public history.
The journal is endorsed by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), an initiative of the Association of Research Libraries.
Submissions
LABOR welcomes submission of articles on labor and working-class history that are based on original research, historiographically engaged, and with appropriate endnotes plus a corresponding list providing bibliographical details. Endnotes and reference list should be prepared in accordance with LABOR‘s Style Guide. All manuscripts should be submitted via ScholarOne using the following link: https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/dup-lab. If it is your first submission then you will need to create an account.
LABOR does not typically accept manuscripts for publication that exceed 10,000 words, including endnotes.
Manuscripts should be anonymized and submitted as a Microsoft Word doc in Times New Roman, double-spaced, 12-point font.
All images and tables should be submitted as separate files. Full details can be found in DUP’s Art Preparation and Submission Guidelines.
LABOR conducts a triple-blind peer review process. We aim to return manuscripts to authors with a decision within three months of their initial submission.
Any questions concerning submissions should be directed to labor@umd.edu.
Book Reviews
LABOR reviews monographs, anthologies, films, textbooks, TV shows, and permanent museum exhibits about the working class history of the United States 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 and we do not accept unsolicited reviews.
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 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.
Review Essays
If you would like to write a review essay on a theme relevant to labor and working-class history, broadly conceived, please feel free to contact us. Such an essay could consider a small handful of books, or survey a subfield of labor history and include a wider range of books. 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.
Special Features
Our Associate Editors for Arts and Media, Contemporary Affairs, Going Public, and The Common Verse (poetry) all welcome submissions as well as ideas the journal could explore. We also occasionally publish roundtable discussions on themes of importance to the field of labor and working-class history. Reach out to us at labor@umd.edu if you have ideas for any of these features.
Recent Issues
The official journal for the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA)
Winner of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals’ Best New Journal award for 2005
Individual subscribers and institutions with electronic access can view issues of Labor online.
As a site for both historical research and commentary, Labor hopes to provide a scaffolding for understanding the roots of our current dilemmas. While still engaging social movements and institutions based on industrial work, Labor gives equal attention to other critical labor systems and social contexts, including agricultural work, slavery, unpaid and domestic labor, the informal sector, and the professions. We look not only to academic historians but also to other scholars, journalists, labor educators, poets, and writer-activists for submissions.
While the scholarly article and book review serve as the foundation of LABOR, the journal contains a number of sections designed to broaden its reach and purpose. The “Contemporary Affairs” section offers labor historians concerned with the search for “a usable past” a platform to address contemporary problems of workers and their unions. “Up for Debate” allows for a focused argument by several scholars on an important theme. “The Common Verse” displays a diversity of poems that give voice to American workers. And a recent new section “Whither Labor History?” analyzes the current state of labor history.
The journal is endorsed by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), an initiative of the Association of Research Libraries.
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Frequency: Quarterly
Submissions
Labor reviews monographs, anthologies, films, textbooks, TV shows, and permanent museum exhibits about the working class history of the United States 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 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.
Recent Issues
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