American Labor: A Documentary Collection

by Melvyn Dubofsky (Editor), Joseph A. McCartin (Editor)

This comprehensive compilation of documents integrates institutional labor history (movements and trade unions) with aspects of social and cultural history. It charts changes in trade union and managerial practices and integrates the economics and politics of labor history. An impressive array of documents details household as well as industrial relations; women as domestic workers, unpaid household labor, and factory workers; African American, Hispanic American (especially Mexican and Mexican American), Asian and white workers. It offers readers insight into the full historical spectrum of workers, their daily lives, and the movements that they created.

319 pages, Paperback

First published November 5, 2004

About the author

A leading scholar of labor history, Melvyn Dubofsky is Bartle Distinguished Professor of History and Sociology emeritus at the State University of New York at Binghamton.

Reviews

[Anna Lifsec · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wide variety of primary sources that were very useful for my study of labor history. I especially enjoyed the way in which Dubofsky preceded primary sources by posing questions to the reader. These questions helped greatly in structuring my thought process.

[Snowowl]

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