Enjoy these great articles while you can and have a happy new year!.

And finally, "Whence Automation?: The History (and Possible Futures) of a Concept" (vol. 21, no. 1) by Salem Elzway and Jason Resnikoff

Followed by "Cocoa at Work: Materials and Labor in the Making of Global Chocolate" (vol. 21, no. 1) by Marta Macedo

Next is "The ILO, the Politics of Statistics, and Changing Perceptions of Informal Work, 1970–Present" (vol. 21, no. 1) by Sibylle Marti

Then "Auto Friction: Douglas Fraser’s 1980 Trip to Japan and the Roots of the Foreign-Owned Auto Industry in the United States" (vol. 21, no. 3) by Timothy J. Minchin

Starting off with "Amazon Mechanical Turk: The Human Sciences’ Labor Problem" (vol. 21, no. 3) by Jiemin Tina Wei

As the year wraps up, we want to share LABOR’s Most Read Articles of 2024. These are FREE for all to read from now until January 31, 2025!.

This article, from our latest issue (21:4), is FREE for all to read now through March 31, 2025!.

Hope everyone is having a great holiday season! Our present to you is "Between the Homing Pigeon and the Vagrant" Erik Bernardino shows how policing sexual morals was intertwined with race/class through his exploration of border policy in the early 20th C.

Our new issue (21.4 Dec. 2024) is out now! We'll be going over the contents in the coming days, but in the meantime, have a look through our Editor's Introduction by @Greeneland for an overview of what's in store!

LABOR is proud to announce the second year of our Translation Prize. We invite submissions of articles in Spanish or Portuguese that focus on labor and working-class history, published from 2023-24. The winner will be translated and appear in our journal. See the call for details

It's really a fascinating discussion on an important book that you won't want to miss.

And lastly, the author herself, Margot Canaday, rounds it out in "A Response, or Some of the Things I Wish I Had Also Said".

@joshhollands in From "'Queer Labor' to Queer Career".

Christina B. Hanhardt in "Queer Flexibility".

@lisalevenstein in "Queer Career and the History of Social Movements".

@JulioCapoJr in "Seeking a Queerer Queer Career".

Drawn from our 2023 Book Forum, this roundtable features commentary by Christopher Phelps in "Capitalism, Work, and Sexuality from the Lavender Scare to Now".

If you’re looking for some fun reading for the holiday break, look no further than our roundtable on Margot Canaday’s groundbreaking book Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America.

Check out this great episode of Labor History Today on the rediscovery of labor artist Phillip Tipperman - with commentary from our editors @Greeneland @PatrickMDixon & @_kathymnewman. And be on the lookout for our roundtable on Tipperman's art in the March 2025 issue of LABOR!.