Labor: Studies in Working-Class History

Aims & Scope

Labor: Studies in Working-Class History hopes to provide an intellectual scaffolding for understanding the roots of continuing social dilemmas.

We invite submissions that explore the situation, subjectivity, or strategy of working people in any era.

Although the tradition from which we emerge and to which we still pay critical homage has focused primarily on social movements and institutions based on “free” industrial labor, we mean to give equal attention to other labor systems and social contexts (e.g., slavery and other coercive labor forms, agricultural work, unpaid and domestic labor, the contingent or informal sector, the professions).

While we begin with the US experience, we intend to extend our literacy not only across the American hemisphere but also, by way of transnational, international, and comparative themes, toward a truly global reach.

To these ends, we look not only to academic historians but also to other scholars, journalists, labor educators, poets, and writer-activists for research articles, interpretive essays, notes and documents, and reviews.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.3
2024	0.30

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.136

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	6

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	25614

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	16

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities, Business, Management and Accounting and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Rethinking Working-Class Struggle through the Lens of the Carceral State: Toward a Labor History of Inmates and Guards

  Citation: 42

  Authors: Heather Ann

• Labor, Money, and the Financial Turn in the History of Capitalism

  Citation: 42

  Authors: Jeffrey

• San Precario: A New Inspiration for Labor Historians

  Citation: 33

  Authors: Marcel

• “That Was a Dirty Job!” Technology and Workplace Hazards in Meatpacking Over the Long Twentieth Century

  Citation: 32

  Authors: Roger

• “Crippled” Hands: Disability in Labor and Working-Class History

  Citation: 27

  Authors: Sarah F.

• “The Hand that Rocks the Cradle Cuts Cordwood”: Exploring Black Women's Lives and Labor in Georgia's Convict Camps, 1865–1917

  Citation: 27

  Authors: Talitha

• Industrial Heritage and the Ambiguities of Nostalgia for an Industrial Past in the Ruhr Valley, Germany

  Citation: 24

  Authors: Stefan

• Nonproprietary Authorship and the Uses of Autonomy: Artistic Labor in American Film Animation, 1900-2004

  Citation: 23

  Authors: Matt

• Nurturing Hope, Deepening Democracy, and Combating Inequalities in Brazil: Lula, the Workers' Party, and Dilma Rousseff's 2010 Election as President

  Citation: 22

  Authors: John, Alexandre

• “New Rules for the Unions”: Mexico's Steelworkers Confront Privatization and the Neoliberal Challenge

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Michael

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