New Labor Forum

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New Labor Forum (www.newlaborforum.org) is a national labor journal owned and edited by the Murphy Institute's Center for Labor, Community, and Policy, City University of New York. It is published three times a year by Routledge, a division of the Taylor and Francis Group.

New Labor Forum's readership consists of leaders and activists in organized labor, as well as academics and activists whose work is linked to the causes championed by, and of interest to, working adults and their communities. The journal provides a place for labor and its allies to test new ideas and debate old ones.

Recent contributors include: Andrew Stern; Frances Fox-Piven; Stephanie Luce; Bill Fletcher; Juan Gonzalez; David Roediger; JoAnn Wypijewski; Jonathan Tasini; Ruth Milkman; Stephen Lerner; Esther Kaplan; and Maria Elena Durazo.

Recent articles include: Kate Bronfenbrenner's and Dorian Warren's Race, Gender, and the Rebirth of Trade Unionism; Anita Chan's Organizing Wal-Mart in China: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back for China's Unions; David Moberg's Labor's Political Options in the Presidential Elections; Jacob Hacker's Health Care for All: A Proposal with Political Muscle; and Janice Fine's Why Labor Needs a Plan B: Alternatives to Conventional Trade Unionism.

Each issue of the journal also includes a Books and the Arts section that publishes poetry and book/film reviews.

New Labor Forum has a subscription base of approximately 2,000 individuals and institutions.