Labor History is the pre-eminent journal for historical scholarship on labor. It is thoroughly ecumenical in its approach and showcases the work of labor historians, industrial relations scholars, labor economists, political scientists, sociologists, social movement theorists, business scholars and all others who write about labor issues. Labor History is also committed to geographical and chronological breadth. It publishes work on labor in the US and all other areas of the world. It is concerned with questions of labor in every time period, from the eighteenth century to contemporary events. Labor History provides a forum for all labor scholars, thus helping to bind together a large but fragmented area of study. By embracing all disciplines, time frames and locales, Labor History is the flagship journal of the entire field. All research articles published in the journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.
Research Articles
The decay and revival of sub-UK employer organisation: a response to Dr Ritson
Leon Gooberman , Marco Hauptmeier & Edmund Heery
Pages: 417–422 / DOI: 10.1080/0023656X.2020.1830958
The early British Communist leaders, 1920–1923: a prosopographical exploration
John McIlroy & Alan Campbell
Pages: 423–465 / DOI: 10.1080/0023656X.2020.1818711
The pre-First World War British women’s suffrage revolt and labour unrest: never the twain shall meet?
Ralph Darlington
Pages: 466–485 / DOI: 10.1080/0023656X.2020.1836612
Decline in an Era of Triumph: Black workers in 1960s New York City
Christopher Hayes
Pages: 486–502 / DOI: 10.1080/0023656X.2020.1830956
‘For the workers but without the workers’: industrial accident management under the Franco dictatorship (1939–1966)
Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez & Jerònia Pons-Pons
Pages: 503–521 / DOI: 10.1080/0023656X.2020.1836139
When coalition falls apart: a case of solidarity building by two South Korean unions in an era of precarious work
Baran Han
Pages: 522–533 / DOI: 10.1080/0023656X.2020.1836140
Subcontracting and low pay kill: lessons from the health and safety consequences of sweated labour in the garment industry, 1880–1920
Sarah Gregson & Michael Quinlan
Pages: 534–550 / DOI: 10.1080/0023656X.2020.1818712
‘White slaves’: labor, whiteness, and settler colonialism in Italian East Africa (1935–1941)
Emanuele Ertola
Pages: 551–567 / DOI: 10.1080/0023656X.2020.1820974
The development of Swedish employment protection legislation
Mohammad Ferdosi
Pages: 568–585 / DOI: 10.1080/0023656X.2020.1830957
South Australia’s employment relief program for assisted immigrants: promises and reality, 1838–1843
Edwyna Harris & Sumner La Croix
Pages: 586–607 / DOI: 10.1080/0023656X.2020.1832975
Effects of labor market and business regulations on unemployment: evidence from EU transition economies
Yilmaz Bayar & Laura Diaconu Maxim
Pages: 608–620 / DOI: 10.1080/0023656X.2020.1841125
Catalonia: the national question and labor’s strategic dilemmas
Josep Maria Antentas
Pages: 621–639 / DOI: 10.1080/0023656X.2020.1836613
‘Shameful forms of oppression’: Anglo-American activism and the slow decline of Chinese indentured labour in British North Borneo, 1920s–1940s
Claire Lowrie
Pages: 640–657 / DOI: 10.1080/0023656X.2020.1839635
Regulation and resistance: defactorisation in the beedi industry of colonial Malabar, 1937–1941
Suramya Thekke Kalathil & Santhosh Abraham
Pages: 658–676 / DOI: 10.1080/0023656X.2020.1844874
The live animal export industry: a case study of the role played by an Australian blue-collar union in the animal welfare and rights movement
Marjorie A. Jerrard
Pages: 677–691 / DOI: 10.1080/0023656X.2020.1813266
Contract labor migration as an agent of revolutionary change in the Danish West Indies
Lomarsh Roopnarine
Pages: 692–705 / DOI: 10.1080/0023656X.2020.1830955
Do Colombian students who work get lower scores in the Saber 11 Test?
Nancy Palacios Mena
Pages: 706–727 / DOI: 10.1080/0023656X.2020.1826415