
About New Labor Forum
New Labor Forum is a national labor journal from the Murphy Institute, at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, published by 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.
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:
On the domestic side, these issues have included:
- the growth of low-wage service and precarious work
- labor and social movement organizing strategy
- rising household debt
- surveillance capitalism
- Black Lives Matter and Police Unions
- U.S. and global political trends
- carceral labor
- immigration policy
- organized labor and the #metoo movement pay inequity
- LGBTQ workplace discrimination
- labor’s relationship to the American empire
- labor’s role in mitigating the climate crisis
Internationally, contributors to the journal have examined:
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- tech worker organizing in China
- organized labor in post-Apartheid South Africa
- the Chinese belt and road initiative
- the ebb and flow of the pink tide in Latin America
- organizing among informal workers in the global south
- efforts to establish an Asia floor wage
- the rise of economic nationalism in Europe
Article highlights include:
- Lily Geismer, Napoleons in Pinstripes: The Rise of the Business Mogul as Politician (Fall 2018)
- Chris Lehmann, Marxism and Consumer Culture (Fall 2015)
- Adolph Reed, The Strange Career of the Voting Rights Act: Selma in Fact and Fiction (Spring 2015)
- Frances Fox Piven, The Changing Faces of Poverty and Inequality: How We Once Came to Fight a War on Poverty (Fall 2014)
- Rodolfo O. de la Garza, Neither Walls nor Open Borders: A New Approach to Immigration Reform (Winter 2011)
- Poo, Ai-jen, A Twenty-First Century Organizing Model: Lessons from the New York Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Campaign (Winter 2011)
- Walden Bello, Reforming Global Capitalism: The Illusion of Change (Fall 2009)
- Jacob Hacker, Health Care for America will Guarantee Coverage for all Americans (Fall 2007)
- Anita Chan, Organizing Wal-Mart in China: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back for China’s Unions (Spring 2007)
- Marshall Berman, Dancing with America: Philip Roth, Writer on the Left (Fall/Winter 2001)
- Sakhela Buhlungu, The Paradox of Victory: South Africa’s Union Movement in Crisis (Spring/Summer 2001)
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