New Labor Forum is a labor journal founded in the Fall of 1997 by the Center for Labor, Community, and Policy Studies, at the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies of the City University of New York

City University of New York

The City University of New York is the public university system of New York City, with its administrative offices in Yorkville in Manhattan. It is the largest urban university in the United States, consisting of 23 institutions: 11 senior colleges, six community colleges, the William E...

. It is published three times a year by Routledge

Routledge

Routledge is a British publishing house which has operated under a succession of company names and latterly as an academic imprint. Its origins may be traced back to the 19th-century London bookseller George Routledge...

, a division of the Taylor and Francis Group.

Overview

New Labor Forum targets an audience 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. The journal provides a place for labor and its allies to introduced new ideas and debate old concepts. Recent contributors include: Andy Stern

Andy Stern

Andrew L. "Andy" Stern , is the former president of the 2.2 million-member Service Employees International Union , the fastest-growing union in the Americas. SEIU is the second largest union in the United States and Canada after the National Education Association.Stern was elected in 1996 to...

, Frances Fox Piven

Frances Fox Piven

Frances Fox Piven is an American professor of political science and sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she has taught since 1982.-Life and education:...

, Bill Fletcher, David Roediger

David Roediger

David R. Roediger is a well-established professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . His research interests include the construction of racial identity, class structures, labor studies, and the history of American radicalism...

, JoAnn Wypijewski, Jonathan Tasini

Jonathan Tasini

Jonathan Yoav Tasini is a 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 that he would challenge New York U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in the Democratic primary for the 2010...

, Ruth Milkman

Ruth Milkman

Ruth Milkman is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles , where she is also director of the UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations.-Education and career:...

, and Maria Elena Durazo

Maria Elena Durazo

Maria Elena Durazo is the current executive secretary–treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO. She was appointed the interim executive secretary–treasurer following the resignation of Martin Ludlow in February 2006, and was voted as the permanent replacement on...

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

Kate Bronfenbrenner

Kate Bronfenbrenner 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 effects of outsourcing and offshoring on workers and worker rights.-Life...

, Joshua Freeman

Joshua Freeman

Joshua B. Freeman is a professor of history at Queens College, City University of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the former executive officer of the Graduate Center's history department. Freeman is often called the "dean of new york writers."-Childhood and education:Freeman was born...

, and Paul Buhle

Paul Buhle

Paul Merlyn Buhle is a 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 nonfiction comic art volumes. He is the authorized biographer of C. L. R...

. 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 2,000 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, Robert Pollin

Robert Pollin

Robert N. Pollin is an American economist and activist. He is a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and founding co-director of its Political Economy Research Institute ....

, co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

University of Massachusetts Amherst

The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a public research and land-grant university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States and the flagship of the University of Massachusetts system...

, began a regular column in New Labor Forum titled "Economic Prospects." The AFL-CIO

AFL-CIO

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, commonly AFL–CIO, is a national trade union center, the largest federation of unions in the United States, made up of 56 national and international unions, together representing more than 11 million workers...

 has cited New Labor Forum, although the magazine is often critical of that labor federation. Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation

The Nation

The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States. The periodical, devoted to politics and culture, is self-described as "the flagship of the left." Founded on July 6, 1865, It is published by The Nation Company, L.P., at 33 Irving Place, New York City.The Nation...

magazine, called the journal "invaluable".