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WHO WE ARE: First released in the fall of 1997, New Labor Forum is a national labor journal owned, edited, and published by the Murphy Institute/City University of New York. Published three times a year, 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, working adults and their communities. Our readers’ broad areas of interest cover the entire range of the humanities and social sciences.


SOME OF OUR AUTHORS:
  • Anita Chan
  • Adolph Reed
  • Ruth Milkman
  • Sakhela Buhlungu
  • Jenny Chan
  • David Bacon
  • Stephanie Luce
  • David Roediger
  • Hector Delgado
  • Jane Slaughter
  • Angela Dillard
  • Muzaffar Chishti
  • Frances Fox Piven
. . . and many more

New Labor Forum is peer-reviewed and indexed in Project MUSE, JSTOR, EBSCO Online, and ProQuest

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-Cornel West

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-Andrew L. Stern, Service Employees International Union

“A strong labor movement is crucial to a democratic society. New Labor Forum hosts the discussion, debate, new ideas and even the poetry essential to a revitalized labor movement.”
-Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor and Publisher of The Nation

“I am encouraged by the emergence of New Labor Forum. Our nation is in need of a revitalized labor movement, drawing on the rich history of workers' struggles. A journal that encourages bold new ideas about the role of labor in society is a valuable spur to labor organizing and to the larger challenge of transforming our society.”
-Howard Zinn

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