Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas

Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas

http://www.dukeupress.edu/labor/

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Publisher: Duke University Press

Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, edited by Leon 
Fink, professor of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is 
a new journal about labor history in the U.S., Canada, Latin America, 
and the Caribbean. Its mission includes providing a site for historical 
analysis and commentary and a framework for understanding the roots of 
our current labor dilemmas.

The labor question--who will do the work and under what economic and 
political terms?--beckons today with renewed global urgency. As a site 
for both historical research and commentary, Labor: Studies in 
Working-Class History of the Americas hopes to provide an intellectual 
scaffolding for understanding the roots of continuing social dilemmas.

We invite submissions that explore the situation, subjectivity, or 
strategy of working men and women in any era. Although the tradition 
from which we emerge and to which we still pay critical homage has 
focused primarily on social movements and institutions based on 
industrial labor, we mean to give equal attention to other labor systems 
and social contexts (e.g., agricultural work, slavery, unpaid and 
domestic labor, informal sector, the professions).

While we begin with the U.S. experience, we intend to extend our 
literacy to developments across the "American" hemisphere and, indeed, 
to other transnational comparisons that shed light on the American 
experience. To these ends, we look not only to academic historians but 
also to other scholars, journalists, labor educators, poets, and 
writer-activists for research articles, interpretive essays, notes and 
documents, and reviews.

Editor:

Professor Leon Fink
Department of History
m/c 198
University of Illinois at Chicago
913 University Hall
601 S. Morgan St.
Chicago, IL 60607

Tel: 312-413-9358
Fax: 312-996-6377
Email: labor@uic.edu

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Currrent Issue:  Volume 1 Number 4 December 2004

Date: 18 Feb. 2005