Revista Mundos do Trabalho

We invite submissions to a special issue of the journal Mundos do Trabalho, titled “Labor’s Environments and Environments of Labor.” Seeking connections, overlaps, and synergies between labor history and environmental history, the issue should simultaneously open new ground at these sub-field intersections and showcase the diversity and achievements of environmental history to an audience primarily of labor historians. A series of debates on labor and environmental history’s reverberations gained momentum about twenty years ago with the work of Steve Marquardt, Myrna Santiago, and others. We hope to build on the dialogue that has unfolded since.

Articles might pursue themes such as labor and the body; gender, sexuality, and landscape; (dis)ability and work environments; public health in the workplace; extractivism and working conditions; nature and forced labor; water and labor; workers in landscapes of industrialization and deindustrialization; commodity frontiers; and much more. We seek contributions from scholars around the world, with a particular preference for those working in and on the Global South. We hope that a broad and diverse group of scholars will submit articles about a rich range of environments and social constructions that engage with the full extent of human labor. We propose no restrictions regarding geography or periodization; on the contrary, we hope to assemble a portfolio with great temporal and geographic reach.

An open-access journal, Mundos do Trabalho is a cooperative project between Brazil’s National Labor History Association, the Worlds of Labor Working Group of the National History Association, and the Federal University of Santa Catarina. The journal enjoys the highest ranking (A1) in History in Brazil’s Qualis/CAPES system and publishes articles in Portuguese, Spanish, and English written by historians from around the world.

The deadline for submissions is August 15, 2024.