Authors needed to write entries for the Encyclopedia of US Labor and Working Class History, (Eric Arnesen, editor) to be published in three volumes by Routledge in November 2006.
The encyclopedia will provide sweeping coverage of labor history. Containing some 800 entries, the encyclopedia will encompass labor history from the colonial era to the present, with articles focusing regions, periods, economic sectors and occupations, race and ethnicity, concepts and developments, legal history, trade unions, strikes, organizations, individuals, management, and government agencies and commissions.
More detailed explanations, as well as a list of available entries, can be found on our website, at www.routledge-ny.com/enc/uslabor/index.html
Contributors will be paid U.S. $70 per thousand words written. If you wish to write any of the available entries listed on our website, please contact us at . Please include your current academic affiliation (title, department, and university) in your correspondence, as well as the titles of the entry or entries you wish to write. We welcome qualified graduate students as well as professors and scholars.