''New Labor Forum'' (, E-) is a national labor journal of debate, analysis and new ideas. ''New Labor Forum'' is published by the CUNY

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Institute and SAGE Press, three times a year, in January, May, and September. Founded in 1997, the journal provides a place for labor and its allies to consider vital research, debate strategy, and test new ideas.

Overview

In its over two decades of publication, articles in the journal have covered the full range of challenges that confront workers and working-class communities. On the domestic side, these issues have included: * the dramatic growth of low wage service and precarious work * the decline of manufacturing * corporate domination in U.S. politics * the privatization of public education * the persistence of black unemployment at double or near double the rate for whites * mass incarceration * immigration raids and the super exploitation of immigrant workers * sexual harassment at work * pay inequity * LGBTQ workplace discrimination * labor's relationship to the American empire and wars without end * the climate change crisis. Internationally, contributors to the journal have examined: * organized labor and economic justice in post-Apartheid South Africa * the rise and fall of the pink tide in Latin America * efforts to organize among informal workers throughout the global south, and * the rise of economic nationalism throughout Europe. The journal provides a place for labor and its allies to introduce new ideas and debate old concepts. Recent contributors include:

Andy Stern Andrew L. Stern (born November 22, 1950) is the former president of the Service Employees International Union, and now serves as its President Emeritus. Stern has been a senior fellow at Georgetown University, Columbia University, and is now a ...

Frances Fox Piven Frances Fox Piven (born October 10, 1932) is an American professor of political science and sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she has taught since 1982.

, Bill Fletcher,

David Roediger David R. Roediger (born July 13, 1952) is the Foundation Distinguished Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Kansas, where he has been since the fall of 2014. Previously, he was an American Kendrick C. Babcock Professor o ...

, JoAnn Wypijewski,

Jonathan Tasini Jonathan Bernard Yoav Tasini (born October 18, 1956) is an American political strategist, organizer, activist, commentator and writer, primarily focusing his energies on the topics of work, labor and the economy. On June 11, 2009, he announced th ...

Ruth Milkman Ruth Milkman (born December 18, 1954) is an American sociologist of labor and labor movements. She is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center, CUNY and the director of research at CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies.

, and

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. Its editorial board is composed of a number of notable scholars, including

Kate Bronfenbrenner Kate Bronfenbrenner (born March 23, 1954) is the Director of Labor Education Research at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She is a leading authority on successful strategies in labor union organizing, and on the effe ...

Joshua Freeman Joshua B. Freeman (born 1949) is an author and professor of history at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY) and the CUNY Graduate Center.Paul Buhle Paul Merlyn Buhle (born September 27, 1944) is a (retired) Senior Lecturer at Brown University, author or editor of 35 volumes including histories of radicalism in the United States and the Caribbean, studies of popular culture, and a series of ...

. Each issue of the journal also includes a "Books and the Arts" section that publishes poetry and book/film reviews. ''New Labor Forum'' has a subscription base of approximately 7,000 individuals and institutions. ''New Labor Forum'' is often considered a critical journal of thought within the American labor movement. For example, its January 2006 issue contained articles linked to the first-of-its-kind (and controversial) Global Unions Conference. In the winter of 2007,

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, co-director of the

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at the

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, began a regular column in ''New Labor Forum'' titled "Economic Prospects." The

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has cited ''New Labor Forum,'' although the magazine is often critical of that labor federation.Jane Slaughter. "Rumblings on the Left: Sweeney's Election Boosted Hopes and Magazines." ''Metro Times.'' January 28, 1998.
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'' magazine, called the journal "invaluable".Katrina vanden Heuvel "Is This a Watershed Moment?" Editor's Cut Blog. TheNation.com March 27, 2008.
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References

External links

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