American Labor: A Documentary History

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

This single-volume comprehensive compilation of documents integrates institutional labour history (movements and trade unions) with aspects of social and cultural history, as well as charting changes in trade union and managerial practices, and integrating the economics and politics of labour history. It includes documents that treat household relations as well as industrial relations; women as domestic workers and unpaid household labour as well as factory workers; and African American, Hispanic American (especially Mexican and Mexican American), and Asian workers as well as white workers. American Labor offers readers an insight into the full spectrum historically of workers, their daily lives, and the movements that they created.

319 pages, Hardcover

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]

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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