A Virtual Platform on Real Work

Laboreal is a scientific journal with an international and multidisciplinary scope. Indexed in scientific databases, its open access digital edition releases unpublished texts twice a year. In order to give greater visibility to research and essays produced in Spanish and Portuguese, Laboreal also publishes the corresponding abstracts in French and English.

The journal stands for the principle of the centrality of work in individual and group history. Therefore, it privileges papers resulting from research that promote such positioning and allows for new perspectives on modes of intervention in the design, accomplishment and transformation of work processes. The journal mainly publishes papers where real work activity is the object of analysis. However, it also welcomes texts that choose different research methods. In accordance with a partnership-based and non-hierarchical cooperation logic, Laboreal’s proposal for a multidisciplinary approach calls for the integration of all knowledge that can contribute to improve work and employment conditions.

According to these guidelines, we value mostly papers that:

• address real work based on context and feasibility criteria, rather than universal and ideal criteria;

• contribute to influence/transform specific situations;

• approach innovative topics that help developing not only scientific knowledge, but also the know-how needed for the field of intervention;

Consequently, the journal is aimed at researchers, professors and students but also has a public of professionals interested in issues related to the actual work performance.

Provided they fit the publishing policy, all texts submitted to Laboreal are assessed by two experts who take the following criteria into consideration:

• Pertinence;

• Originality;

• Quality of the theoretical framework;

• Methodological adequacy and rigor;

• Clarity and justification of findings;

• Pertinence of the bibliography;

• Coherence and balance of the text’s structure;

• Compliance with the journal’s norms.

After this assessment, the author may be asked to make changes. The new version is then reevaluated prior to the final publishing decision.

Laboreal is committed to the fundamentals of Open Science. For that reason, it encourages the authors to give free access to the data that support the findings in the submitted papers (see Data sharing policy) and provides open access to its contents which are fully available and free of charge both for individuals and organizations. Users may read, copy, share, print, research and use the hyperlinks to access full manuscripts, as well as using them at their will within the limits of law, without the editor or the author expressed consent. Furthermore, submission and publication are not charged to the authors.

The authors are liable for the opinions expressed in the papers and the journal’s committees cannot be held responsible for their use.

By submitting a paper to Laboreal, the authors accept the editorial and ethical principles by which the journal is run.