WorkingUSA
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WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society is a comprehensive and significant critical source on the "work" experience, labor movements, and class relations throughout the world. WUSA is an ecumenical journal that welcomes scholarly articles that analyze the working class and labor institutions as democratic forces in society through documenting rank-and-file collective action.
WorkingUSA is an inter-disciplinary social science
journal focusing on the current context and shape of capitalist social relations, business and corporations, labor relations
, the working class and the labor unions
. The journal publishes articles through the lens of significant historical comparative research examining the global and American economy and labor movements through an international perspective.
Access to the journal is available worldwide through the Wiley-Blackwell Consortia and through library and individual subscriptions. The journal is essential reading for workers and new entrants into the U.S. labor market, examining the current state of wages, working conditions, and the status of the economy. The journal reaches more than 3,250 academic libraries, student-workers, legal scholars, labor union activists, internationalists, and global justice advocates worldwide. The journal covers an ecumencial range of critical perspectives on the left, Marxism
, anarcho-syndicalism
, autonomism
, and anti-imperialism.
WUSA began publication in 1997. The journal is now published by Wiley-Blackwell. The editorial office of WUSA is the Graduate Center for Worker Education, of City University of New York, 25 Broadway, 7th Floor, New York 10004 NY - US. The Graduate Center, affiliated with Brooklyn College, is a institution for labor and working-class research in the US. Immanuel Ness, a labor and working-class scholar and activist, is editor of the journal, which holds quarterly board meetings prioritizing submissions on the basis of significance to labor and the working class and plan special issues on the basis of the latest labor market trends.
WorkingUSA is recognized globally as the leading source of critical analysis of labor and capitalism on an international basis: The journal endeavors to promote thoughtful analysis of the current and future prospects of the working class, peasants, and the poor that advances beyond the narrow goals of individuals and corporations. As such, the essays frequently examine historical, comparative, and strategic paths of building working-class power through rank and file organizations, labor unions and workers councils at public and private entperises and in communities throughout the world.
WorkingUSA is an open-source font of information and, while a voice of labor writ large, is independent of labor unions, though views the organization of labor vital for the self-advancement of the working class. The WUSA editorial board is dedicated to promoting labor and working class democracy inside and outside of unions, and encourages essays that illuminate the ways in which workers organize at th rank-and-file level. The journal seeks to examine the historical sweep of history while seeking to obtain essays on significant trends in Marxist and radical political economy, as opposed to the latest conventional and flawed economic information easily accessible through magazines, journals that fail to provide a rigorous referee process, and the dwindling number of newspapers covering labor.
The journal examines workers as a powerful popular force to promote a more equitable, democratic, and creating just society in the immediate and long-term, sustaining the living standards of all while preserving the ecologically-sustainable economic viability of the planet. Concomitantly, WUSA promotes examination of the influence of race, gender, imperialism, religion, labor markets, social movements, electoral and non-electoral politics, and legal systems that have significant sway on labor consciousness and its potential capacity to develop into a class for itself. A significant share of the articles seek analytical approaches using philosophical and political theory emerging from basic principles of human rights.
Working USA is an interdisciplinary labor and human rights journal welcoming unsolicited contributions on issues related to workers, labor, and class struggles from historians, sociologists, political scientists, and labor experts. All submissions are refereed through a peer-review process.
WorkingUSA is an inter-disciplinary social science
Social sciences
Social science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences...
journal focusing on the current context and shape of capitalist social relations, business and corporations, labor relations
Labor relations
Industrial relations is a multidisciplinary field that studies the employment relationship. Industrial relations is increasingly being called employment relations because of the importance of non-industrial employment relationships. Many outsiders also equate industrial relations to labour relations...
, the working class and the labor unions
Trade union
A trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...
. The journal publishes articles through the lens of significant historical comparative research examining the global and American economy and labor movements through an international perspective.
Access to the journal is available worldwide through the Wiley-Blackwell Consortia and through library and individual subscriptions. The journal is essential reading for workers and new entrants into the U.S. labor market, examining the current state of wages, working conditions, and the status of the economy. The journal reaches more than 3,250 academic libraries, student-workers, legal scholars, labor union activists, internationalists, and global justice advocates worldwide. The journal covers an ecumencial range of critical perspectives on the left, Marxism
Marxism
Marxism is an economic and sociopolitical worldview and method of socioeconomic inquiry that centers upon a materialist interpretation of history, a dialectical view of social change, and an analysis and critique of the development of capitalism. Marxism was pioneered in the early to mid 19th...
, anarcho-syndicalism
Anarcho-syndicalism
Anarcho-syndicalism is a branch of anarchism which focuses on the labour movement. The word syndicalism comes from the French word syndicat which means trade union , from the Latin word syndicus which in turn comes from the Greek word σύνδικος which means caretaker of an issue...
, autonomism
Autonomism
Autonomism refers to a set of left-wing political and social movements and theories close to the socialist movement. As an identifiable theoretical system it first emerged in Italy in the 1960s from workerist communism...
, and anti-imperialism.
WUSA began publication in 1997. The journal is now published by Wiley-Blackwell. The editorial office of WUSA is the Graduate Center for Worker Education, of City University of New York, 25 Broadway, 7th Floor, New York 10004 NY - US. The Graduate Center, affiliated with Brooklyn College, is a institution for labor and working-class research in the US. Immanuel Ness, a labor and working-class scholar and activist, is editor of the journal, which holds quarterly board meetings prioritizing submissions on the basis of significance to labor and the working class and plan special issues on the basis of the latest labor market trends.
WorkingUSA is recognized globally as the leading source of critical analysis of labor and capitalism on an international basis: The journal endeavors to promote thoughtful analysis of the current and future prospects of the working class, peasants, and the poor that advances beyond the narrow goals of individuals and corporations. As such, the essays frequently examine historical, comparative, and strategic paths of building working-class power through rank and file organizations, labor unions and workers councils at public and private entperises and in communities throughout the world.
WorkingUSA is an open-source font of information and, while a voice of labor writ large, is independent of labor unions, though views the organization of labor vital for the self-advancement of the working class. The WUSA editorial board is dedicated to promoting labor and working class democracy inside and outside of unions, and encourages essays that illuminate the ways in which workers organize at th rank-and-file level. The journal seeks to examine the historical sweep of history while seeking to obtain essays on significant trends in Marxist and radical political economy, as opposed to the latest conventional and flawed economic information easily accessible through magazines, journals that fail to provide a rigorous referee process, and the dwindling number of newspapers covering labor.
The journal examines workers as a powerful popular force to promote a more equitable, democratic, and creating just society in the immediate and long-term, sustaining the living standards of all while preserving the ecologically-sustainable economic viability of the planet. Concomitantly, WUSA promotes examination of the influence of race, gender, imperialism, religion, labor markets, social movements, electoral and non-electoral politics, and legal systems that have significant sway on labor consciousness and its potential capacity to develop into a class for itself. A significant share of the articles seek analytical approaches using philosophical and political theory emerging from basic principles of human rights.
Working USA is an interdisciplinary labor and human rights journal welcoming unsolicited contributions on issues related to workers, labor, and class struggles from historians, sociologists, political scientists, and labor experts. All submissions are refereed through a peer-review process.