2006 Impact Factor: 0.333
Ranking: 10/16 (History of Social Sciences), 12/14 (Industrial Relations & Labor)
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Mission Statement:

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.

Labor History Prizes 2007:

The winners of the 2007 Labor History prizes have been announced.

Dissertation

Winner
Lucien Van Der Walt
‘Anarchism and Syndicalism in South Africa, 1904-1921: Rethinking the History of Labour and the Left'
Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand, 2007
Supervisor: Professor Jonathan Hyslop

Articles

1. Best article - US Topic
Richard Steven Street, ‘Poverty in the Valley of Plenty: The National Farm Labor Union, DiGiorgio Farms, and Suppression of Documentary Photography in California, 1947-66'
Volume 48, Issue 1 (February 2007)

2. Best article - Non-US or Comparative Topic
Howell Harris, ‘Between Convergence and Exceptionalism: Americans and the British Model of Labor Relations, c. 1867-1920'
Volume 48, Issue 2 (May 2007)

3. Best article - Young Scholar
Daniel Roger Maul, ‘The International Labour Organization and the Struggle against Forced Labour from 1919 to the Present'
Volume 48, Issue 4 (November 2007)

Best Book
 
The prize panel, after careful deliberation, has elected not to award a best book prize for 2007.

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