Publishing rules and Ethics

Workers of the World – International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflict (WW) is an academic journal with peer review published in English, for which original manuscripts may be submitted in Spanish, French, English, Italian and Portuguese. Workers of the World publishes original articles, interviews and book reviews in the field of labour history and social conflicts in an interdisciplinary, global, long term historical and non Eurocentric perspective.

All texts are anonymously submitted to two referees, provided they meet the minimum requirements indicated in the rules for submission of contributions. The Editorial Board reserves the right not to initiate the review process of articles that do not meet these editorial and publishing rules for submission.

Rules for submission of contributions

All submissions to the journal Workers of the World – International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflict must follow these rules:

  1. All entries must be electronically sent to our e-mail (workersoftheworld1848@gmail.com). They must be saved in a program that’s compatible with Word for Windows. Images at 300 dpi.
  2. Separately, authors must send their full details – full name, institutional affiliation, academic degrees, institutional address and e-mail for correspondence). The author must also declare that the submitted text is original and not yet published or being evaluated in any other publication.
  1. The originals may be submitted in Spanish, French, English, Italian and Portuguese. However, the article in its final form will be published in English, so – once approved for publication – the author is responsible for its translation within two months.
  1. The translations must be accompanied by a permission of the author and the original text.
  1. The articles will have a length of 25 000 to 40 000 characters (including spaces), typed in Times New Roman, size 12, with 1.5 line spacing. Quotations of more than three lines should be highlighted with font 11, single spaced. Margins: top and bottom: 2.0 cm, left and right: 3.0 cm. Items will be accompanied by the English title, abstract of no more than 10 lines (in original language and English), with 3-5 keywords.
  1. Book reviews may be between 5000 and 7500 characters (including spaces), with three key words, besides the title in the original language and English. Sources and bibliography follow the same rules of the articles and should not exceed two pages.
  1. The notes should be placed in footnotes, not exceeding the number of 30.

Rules for bibliographic references:

Books: Surname, First Name. Book title in italics: subtitle. Edition. City: Publisher, year, p. or pp.
Book chapter: Surname, First Name. Title of chapter or part of the book. In: Book title in italics.Edition. City: Publisher, year, p. x-y.
Journal: Surname, First Name. Title of the article. Journal title in italics. City: Publisher, vol., Issue, p. x-y, year.

Ethical criteria

The Workers of the World: International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflict is committed to promoting ethical conduct, both in the contents of the journal and throughout the publication process. For this reason, all the people involved in its publication (Executive Board, Advisory Board, coordinators of the special issue, reviewers) will follow the following principles:  

  • Non-discrimination. It will be ensured that the evaluation and publication of articles will be done without prejudice of racialization, gender, sexual orientation, ethnic origin, country of origin, citizenship and/or political or personal preferences of the authors. The review must be done in an objective manner, no personal judgements about the author should be made, and opinions about the work should be justified and appropriately argued.
  • Confidentiality. Every person involved in the process of editing and publishing the journal are committed to not disclose information about the articles received to anyone other than the author and the reviewers; in the same way that the process will be followed ensuring that the anonymity of both is preserved. In order to fulfil this criteria, it will be ensured that the evaluation process is carried out in accordance with double-blind review procedures. 
  • Conflict of interest and disclosure. The results of the articles received will not be used for other research work without the explicit consent of the authors. Likewise, the journal will ensure that all persons involved in the process of receiving, evaluating and editing articles meet these criteria. Restricted information obtained from the review process is confidential and, therefore, cannot be used for personal purposes. In the event that the review of an article may involve a conflict of interest due to collaboration or competition with the author or the institution from which it originates, the reviewer must reject the review proposal. 
  • Error recognition. Corrections, retractions, apologies or clarifications will be issued if necessary.  
  • Decision on publication. The Executive Board, together with the Advisory Board, is responsible for the decision to publish or not to publish received articles. The criteria for acceptance or rejection are established through blind peer review and compliance with the ethical criteria of the authors and the journal. 

At the same time, authors who wish to publish in the Workers of the World: International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflict agree to fulfil the following criteria:  

  • Authorship of the texts. All proposed articles must be signed by their author. If appropriate, they may be signed by any person who has participated significantly in the planning, organization or execution of the research on which the article is based.  
  • Responsibility. Authors are responsible for the content of their manuscript.  
  • Plagiarism and originality. Authors declare that the submitted work is original, and that all sources used are properly cited. 
  • Multiple, repeated or publications coming into conflict. The author will not publish the same text, or a partial copy of it, as an original in other media. The author also undertakes not to submit manuscripts that are in the process of being evaluated by other journals.  
  • Conflict of interest and disclosure. The authors, when submitting the article, declare that there are no conflicts of interest that may have conditioned the results of the research or the interpretations proposed. If they do exist, they will also indicate the sources of funding and the project in which the article is found.  
  • Mistakes in published articles. In the event that an author identifies a major mistake or inaccuracy in the published article, they must report it to the journal and provide the necessary information so that corrections can be made. 

Recommendations for the use of inclusive and non-sexist language  

All authors are recommended to use inclusive and non-sexist language in the texts submitted for publication. Expressions that stigmatise or discriminate against groups of people, whether racialised, or on the basis of origin, functional diversity, gender, sexual orientation, beliefs, ideology or socio-economic status, shall be avoided.  

Peer review process

Revision criteria

When reviewing articles, the criteria to be taken into account include their contribution to the knowledge of the subject, the advances they present, their theoretical, methodological contributions, as well as the bibliographical and documentary references used, the quality of their writing and their spelling and grammatical correctness; and will indicate recommendations, if relevant, to achieve a possible improvement.   

Stages in the evaluation process of an article  

Stage 1: submission of the original.  

Stage 2: blind peer review of the original article by two external reviewers, experts in the corresponding subject area.  

Stage 3: communication of review results to the journal editor. The reviewers send the result of the evaluation and a proposed opinion to the journal editor.  

Stage 4: notification of the evaluation result to the authors:

  • Acceptance: an article is approved if the result of the two evaluations are positive. 
  • Non-acceptance: an article is rejected if the result of the two evaluations are negative.
  • Acceptance (with modifications): the result of the evaluation requires substantial modifications that the author will have to implement before the article is finally approved.  

In the event of a difference of opinion in the result of the evaluation, the Editorial Board may take the decision it deems appropriate, after consulting the Advisor Board. The journal guarantees the anonymity of both, authors and reviewers.  

Frequency of publication

Workers of the World: International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflict journal is published bi-annually. The executive board and the advisory board are committed to ensure that this frequency is maintained.  

Access and publication rates

Workers of the World: International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflict provides online access through its website, and has no publication or editing fees of any kind. These costs are covered by the publisher.  

Advertising and marketing

Workers of the World: International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflict does not accept advertising from third parties.

Copyright notice

Workers of the World: International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflict is published in accordance with the open access criteria established by the Directory of Open Access Journals. Therefore, authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:  

  • Authors hold the copyright. Texts published in this journal are – unless otherwise indicated – subject to the terms of access.  
  • Usage of the contents of the journal is subject to an Attribution – Non-commercial – No Derivative Works (by-nc-nd) license. Reproduction, distribution and public communication is permitted as long as it is not for profit and the content of the work is not modified. You can see a copy of the Creative Commons license here.  
  • Authors may separately establish additional agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in the journal, with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in the Workers of the World: International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflict.  
  • Authors are allowed and encouraged to deposit their works in institutional and theme-based reference repositories, as well as to disseminate them in other ways. For example, by publishing them on their websites. As this can lead to productive exchanges, since their dissemination implies a potential advantage of improving their impact on the scientific community and on bibliometric citation (see The Effect of Open Access).