WorkingUSA
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Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society is the most comprehensive and significant source on labor and the "work" experience in the United States. Working USA is an inter-disciplinary social science journal focusing on the current context and shape of capitalist social relations, business and corporations, labor relations, the working class and the labor unions. Although primarily focusing on the United States, the journal publishes articles through the lens of significant historical comparative research examining the American economy and labor movement through an international perspective and welcomes essay submissions on labor and the working class throughout the world.
Access to the journal is available worldwide through the Wiley-Blackwell Consortia and through library and individual subsriptions. The journal is essential reading for workers and new entrants into the U.S. labor market, examining the current state of wages, working conditions, and the status of the economy. The journal reaches more than 2,000 academics, student-workers, legal scholars, labor union activists, internationalists, and global justice advocates worldwide.
''WUSA'' began publication in 1997. The journal is now published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. The editorial office of WUSA is the Graduate Center for Worker Education, at City University Centers for Worker Education, 25 Broadway, 7th Floor, New York 10004 NY - US. The Graduate Center is the leading graduate institution for labor research in the New York region. The journal editorial board is composed of leading scholars from throughout the world, including Au Loong-yu, Bill Adams, Debdas Banerjee, Harris Freeman, Bill Fletcher, Paul Germanatta, Rick Hurd, Robin D.G. Kelley, Manning Marable, Frances Fox Piven, Saskia Sassen, Jane Slaughter, Paul Taillon, and Wilhelmina Trout, Cornel West, among others at the forefront of analysis of U.S. and international forms of capitalism and working conditions. Immanuel Ness, a labor and working-class scholar and activist, is editor of the journal, which holds quarterly board meetings prioritizing submissions on the basis of significance to labor and the working class and plan special issues on the basis of the latst labor market trends.
WorkingUSA is recognized in North America as the leading source of critical analysis of labor and capitalism: The journal endeavors to promote thoughtful analysis of the current and future prospects of the working class, peasants, and the poor that advances beyond the narrow goals of individuals and corporations. As such, the essays frequently examine historical, comparative, and strategic paths of building working-class power through unions and workers councils at public and private entperises and in communities. Unlike other conventional journals and magazine format publications, Working USA is an open-source font of information and is independent of labor unions, though views the organization of labor as vital for the self-advancement of the working class. The journal seeks to examine the historical sweep of history while seeking to obtain essays on significant trends in political economy, as opposed to the latest information easily accessible through magazines and newspapers.
The journal examines workers as a powerful popular force to promote a more equitable, democratic, and creating just society in the immediate and long-term, sustaining the living standards of all while preserving the ecologically-sustainable economic viability of the planet. Concomitantly, WUSA promotes examination of the influence of race, gender, imperialism, religion, labor markets, social movements, electoral and non-electoral politics, and legal systems that have significant sway on labor consciousness and its potential capacity to develop into a class for itself. A significant share of the articles seek analytical approaches using philosophical and political theory emerging from basic principles of human rights.
Working USA is an interdisciplinary labor and human rights journal welcoming unsolicited contributions on issues related to workers, labor, and class struggles from historians, sociologists, political scientists, and labor experts. All submissions are refereed through a peer-review process. For submission information go to working-usa.org
