While the primary focus is on the United States, the journal also covers labor movements in North and South America as well as transnational comparisons that shed light on the American labor movement.

It is the official journal of the Labor and Working-Class History Association and is published by Duke University Press.

[1][2] The editor-in-chief is Julie Greene (University of Maryland, College Park) who took over the role when the founding editor, Leon Fink (University of Illinois at Chicago), stepped down in July 2023.

[5] Labor is endorsed by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, as a SPARC Alternative.

[6] In 2016 the board voted to adjust the subtitle to Labor: Studies in Working-Class History to reflect a new transnational scope that stretched beyond the Western hemisphere.