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WHO WE ARE. New Labor Forum is a national labor journal
owned and edited by the Murphy Institute’s Center for Labor, Community, and Policy, City University of
New York. It is published three times a year by Routledge, a division of the Taylor and Francis Group.
We recently celebrated our 10th Anniversary, our first issue having been released in the fall of 1997.
New Labor Forum provides a place for labor and its allies to test new ideas and debate old ones. Issues we explore include, but are not limited to: the global economy’s impact on work and labor; new union organizing and political strategies; labor’s new constituencies and their relationship to organized labor’s traditional institutions; internal union reform and new structural models for the labor movement; alternative economic and social policies; and the role of culture in a new, revitalized labor movement.
WHO READS US. Our core constituency consists of leaders and activists
in organized labor, as well as academics and activists whose work is linked to the causes championed by, and of interest to,
workers, their communities, and the organizations that represent them. Our readers’ broad areas of interest cover the entire range of the humanities and social sciences. We have a subscription base of 2,000 readers.
WRITING FOR NEW LABOR FORUM
WHAT WE ASK OF AUTHORS. Articles should start with a clear and pointed argument.
We ask authors to avoid familiar rhetoric, instead making provocative arguments
or providing new, concrete information. For book reviews, we ask authors to go
beyond summarizing the book to engage with the contents of the book in question.
Contributors should avoid jargon, assumptions, technical language, “academese,”
and rhetoric. Spell out full titles and put acronyms in parentheses at their
first use, including commonly used union acronyms. All references and notes
should be incorporated, to the extent possible, into the main text of the
article. Where endnotes are necessary, please refer to The Chicago Manual of
Style, 15th Edition. Please do not use footnotes. Submissions must be in 12
point Times Roman, double-spaced. Authors are responsible for acquiring
permission to reproduce all graphs, charts, illustrations, and other material
that they use in their articles. Along with the submission please send us: 1) a
bio of two sentences to publish in the journal 2) an email address to be
published with the bio, and 3) a postal address to which we can mail authors
their complimentary copies of the journal. When submitting manuscripts, please
either e-mail the document as an attachment or send a labeled disk. (We prefer
submissions in Microsoft Word format for IBM.)
We exclusively publish work that has not been previously published, and is
not under consideration for publication elsewhere, with the exception of
specific arrangements made by the author with our editors. Copyright reverts
back to author upon publication.
EDITING PROCESS. We use a multi-tiered editing process. Our editors will read
each article and return comments to the author. Sometimes we will seek a second
or third round of revisions. After copyediting, we will send every article to
our publisher, who will email authors the electronic proofs of their article for
review—or send hard copy if that is the author’s preference. The publisher will
incorporate final changes and perform a final proofread to ensure that the
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