Workers of the World

Workers of the World: International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflict aims to stimulate global studies on labor and social conflicts in an interdisciplinary, global, long term historical and non-Eurocentric perspective. It intends to move away from traditional forms of methodological nationalism and conjectural studies, adopting an explicitly critical and interdisciplinary perspective. Therefore, it will publish empirical research and theoretical discussions that address strikes and social conflicts in an innovative and rigorous manner. It will also promote dialogue between scholars from different fields and different countries and disseminate analyzes on different sociocultural realities, to give visibility and centrality to this theme.

About the Journal

Editorial Statement

The first issue of Workers of the World. International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflict was online at the end of June 2012. The journal is an important step to consolidate the initiative, decided at the Lisbon Labour Conference in March 2011, of creating an international association of researchers and institutions involved in the study of this subject.

The working class repeatedly continues to make its presence known and by doing so refutes the pessimistic predictions about the end of social conflicts that were popular in past decades. Different forms of popular struggle emerged in response to deteriorating living conditions, precarious employment of labour, and the change or elimination of social and labour protection legislation. In addition to the renewed labour movement in its classical forms of collective action and organization through strikes and unions, we saw the emergence or re-creation of movements of the unemployed or underemployed, of the landless and the homeless, just to mention some of the most widely known.

Despite numerous attempts to theoretically declare the end of social classes, strikes, and social movements, the inherent social contradictions in society and workers’ own actions constitute imposing evidence to the contrary. Industrial conflicts repeatedly have intersected with other social conflicts and ethnic, gender and generational issues complexity and renew interest in collective action, bringing in new theoretical and analytical challenges to researchers.

Workers of the World. International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflict aims to be innovative. This journal aims to stimulate global studies on labour and social conflicts in an interdisciplinary, global, long term historical and non Eurocentric perspective. It intends to move away from traditional forms of methodological nationalism and conjectural studies, adopting an explicitly critical and interdisciplinary perspective. Therefore, it will publish empirical research and theoretical discussions that address strikes and social conflicts in an innovative and rigorous manner. It will also promote dialogue between scholars from different fields and different countries and disseminate analyzes on different socio-cultural realities, to give visibility and centrality to this theme.

Executive Board

António Simões do Paço. Observatório para as Condições de Vida e Trabalho. Eddie Cottle. Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of Witwatersrand. Ralph Darlington. Emeritus Professor of Employment Relations at the University of Salford. Raquel Varela. FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Advisory Board

Alexandra Jaeger. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V (Germany). Andreia Galvão. (Campinas, Brazil). Bernd Hüttner. Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (Germany). Beverly Silver. Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland, USA). Bryan Palmer. Professor Emeritus, Trent University (Canada). Charles Smith. St Thomas More College in Saskatoon (Canada). Curtis Lyons. Cornell University (USA). Dave Lyddon. Keele University (UK). Eric Vanhaute. Ghent University (Belgium). Henry Fowler. StrikeMap (UK). Kirk Niergarth. Mt Royal University (Calgary, Canada). Marcel van der Linden. International Institute for Social History (Netherlands). María Celia Cotarelo. PIMSA (Argentina). Maria da Graça Druck. Universidade Federal da Bahia (Brazil).
Martí Marin. Centre d’Estudis sobre Dictadures i Democràcies (Spain). Panagiotis Sotiris. Hellenic Open University (Greece). Paula Marcelino. Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil). Ricardo Antunes. UNICAMP (Campinas, Brazil). Rohini Hensman. Independent scholar and writer. Roberto della Santa. Centro de Estudos Globais, Universidade Aberta (Portugal). Rubén Vega Garcia. Universidad Oviedo (Spain). Sjaak van der Velden. International Institute for Social History (Netherlands). Silke Neunsinger. Arbark (Sweden). Verity Burgmann. University of Melbourne (Australia). Wendy Goldman. Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA). Xavier Domènech. Centre d’Estudis sobre Dictadures i Democràcies (Spain).

Sponsorship

International Association Strikes and Social Conflicts. iassc-net.org
Cornell University. cornell.edu