The target audience for the journal was academics, students, employers, workers, and collective bargaining negotiators.

[1] A common textbook in Industrial and organizational psychology has cited the journal as one of two key publications in that very narrow field.

[4] Its establishment was a direct outgrowth of the expansion of collective bargaining rights in the United States to public sector workers.

It currently publishes articles, book reviews, and comments on collective bargaining in both the private and public sectors.

For example, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada has cited articles on comparable worth which have been published in the journal.