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, Frances Fox Piven, Bill Fletcher, David Roediger, JoAnn Wypijewski, Jonathan Tasini, Ruth Milkman, and Maria Elena Durazo. Its editorial board is composed of a number of notable scholars, including Kate Bronfenbrenner, Joshua Freeman, and Paul Buhle. 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. [1] In the winter of 2007, Robert Pollin, co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, began a regular column in New Labor Forum titled "Economic Prospects." [2] The AFL–CIO has cited New Labor Forum, [3] although the magazine is often critical of that labor federation. [4] Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation magazine, called the journal "invaluable". [5]
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