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Journal of Labor and Society

academic journal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMay 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ96717404 ↗
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The Journal of Labor and Society, formerly WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society, is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Brill Publishers covering the political economy of labour, labor movements, and class relations throughout the world. It focuses on the current context and shape of capitalist social relations, business and corporations, labor relations, the working class and the labor unions in the Global South. The journal was established in 1997 and published by Wiley Periodicals through December 2020. In January 2021, the journal began publishing with Brill. The editor-in-chief is Immanuel Ness (City University of New York).

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This entry incorporates text from “Journal of Labor and Society” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.