Journal profile · INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR
Labor-Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas
ISSN 1547-6715 · eISSN 1558-1454 · Duke University Press
Labor-Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas: CAS Zone 4 · Management (2025 upgraded edition); subscription journal; 97 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Labor-Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas is published by Duke University Press and is in Zone 4 of Management in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Labor Movements and Unions, Race, History, and American Society and Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy, together about 44.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The labor question—who will do the work and under what economic and political terms?—beckons today with renewed global urgency. As a site for both historical research and commentary, 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.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR
Editor-in-chief Julie GreenePublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Labor Movements and UnionsSocial Sciences18.4%
- Race, History, and American SocietySocial Sciences17.8%
- Migration, Ethnicity, and EconomySocial Sciences8.3%
- American History and CultureBusiness, Management and Accounting7%
- Political Economy and MarxismSocial Sciences4.4%
- Latin American and Latino StudiesSocial Sciences3.7%
- Canadian Identity and HistorySocial Sciences3.6%
- Anarchism and Radical PoliticsSocial Sciences3.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Management Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Industrial Relations & Labor | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Management Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Industrial Relations & Labor | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of SciencePubMedPublisher website
Other: Alternative Press Index (Online), America: History and Life, Current Abstracts, European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH) PLUS, Historical Abstracts (Online), Left Index (Online), MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association), Poetry & Short Story Reference Center, Political Science Complete, Social Science Premium Collection, SocINDEX, SocINDEX with Full Text, Sociological Abstracts (Online), Core, Sociology Collection, TOC Premier (Table of Contents), Ulrichsweb, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.3LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.13LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.27LetPub ·
- h-index
- 43OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 188OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.4OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 21LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,239 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 42 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 97 | 9 | 9 |
| 2024 | 84 | 3 | 79 |
| 2023 | 97 | 6 | 88 |
| 2022 | 93 | 3 | 118 |
| 2021 | 107 | 1 | 95 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Peer review
- Triple anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websitePeer review
- Peer review
Duke University Press journals ship via surface mail unless otherwise specified. Model summary
Duke University Press journals ship via surface mail unless otherwise specified.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- ISSN
- 1547-6715
- Electronic ISSN
- 1558-1454
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Labor-Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas
What CAS zone is Labor-Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Labor-Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas is in Zone 4 of Management, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Industrial Relations & Labor. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Management. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
Which databases index Labor-Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Labor-Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas is indexed in ESCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists Web of Science and PubMed; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Labor-Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas open access, and what is the APC?
Labor-Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas is a subscription journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .