Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, to be published by Duke University Press beginning in January, 2004.
A set of irreconcilable differences (to be detailed at another place and time) with Taylor & Francis, the current owner-publisher of Labor History has led to this new venture and this new opportunity. With the active and eager cooperation of an outstanding university press, I am convinced that our field is poised for a sustained takeoff in scholarly achievement and impact on the intellectual public culture. I am delighted that the entire editorial team (see list below) with whom I have had the pleasure to work during the past two years will make the jump to Labor.
Our mission, in a nutshell, is to build out from the honorable, intellectual foundations of our field along lines both conceptual and geographic. As to the latter, although we begin with and will continue to nurture our strong base in U.S. history, we are serious about expanding our literacy to encompass trans-national, comparative, and even global historical developments. As evidenced both in our title and editorial structure, however, our first ambition is to complement U.S.-centered work with submissions on Canadian and Latin American/Caribbean history.
In the coming weeks, more details will be forthcoming about the publication structure, subscription procedures, etc. of the new journal. Among other initiatives, we are eager to seek a close, organic collaboration with LAWCHA, the Labor and Working Class History Association.
In this new venture, we continue to be joined by an exceptional supporting cast, including Associate Editors for Contemporary Affairs--James Green, University of Massachusetts-Boston; Arts and Media--Joshua Brown, American Social History Project for Canadian History--Gregory Kealey, University of New Brunswick; for Latin America/Caribbean History--John French, Duke University.
Editorial Committee
Dorothy Sue Cobble, Rutgers University,
Cindy Hahamovitch, College of William and Mary
Bruce Laurie, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California-Santa Barbara
Vicki Ruiz, Arizona State University
Julie Saville, University of Chicago
Contributing Editors
Eric Arnesen, Illinois-Chicago
James Barrett, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Susan Porter Benson, Connecticut
Ira Berlin, Maryland
Eileen Boris, California-Santa Barbara
Kevin Boyle, Massachusetts
Patricia Cooper, Kentucky
Alan Derickson, Pennsylvania State
Thomas Dublin, SUNY-Binghamton
Melvyn Dubofsky, SUNY-Binghamton
Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Faue, Wayne State
Dana Frank, California-Santa Cruz
Lawrence Glickman, South Carolina
Camille Guerin Gonzalez, Wisconsin
Elizabeth Jamieson, Calgary
Sanford Jacoby, California-Los Angeles
Daniel James, Indiana
Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia
Mark Leier, Simon Fraser
Alex Lichtenstein, Florida International
Joseph McCartin, Georgetown
David Montgomery, Yale
Juan Mora-Torres, De Paul
Mae Ngai, Chicago
Gunther Peck, Texas
Peter Rachleff, Macalester College
Bruno Ramirez, Montreal
Marcus Rediker, Pittsburgh
David Roediger, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Joan Sangster, Trent
Christopher Tomlins, American Bar Foundation
Joe W. Trotter, Carnegie Mellon
Zaragosa Vargas, California-Santa Barbara
Alfred Young, Newberry Library
Robert Zieger, Florida
Henceforth, all correspondence to Labor will be handled as follows:
- All manuscript submissions by Leon Fink and editorial coordinator, LisaMary Wichowski c/o Department of History m/c 198, University of Illinois at Chicago, 913 University Hall, Chicago, IL 60607, leonfink@mailserv.uic.edu
- All book review matters by Julie Greene and editorial assistant, R. Todd Laugen c/o History Department, University of Colorado, CB # 234, Boulder, CO 80309-0234, lhreview@spot.colorado.edu
We look forward to your contributions!
Leon Fink, Editor, Labor
leonfink@mailserv.uic.edu