American Labor: A Documentary History

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.

Author: Melvyn Dubofsky
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 03/01/2005
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.29lbs
Size: 9.52h x 6.54w x 0.99d
ISBN: 9780312295653

About the Author
MELVYN DUBOFSKY is Bartle Distinguished Professor of History & Sociology at Binghamton University, State University of New York, USA. He is author of numerous books and essays in history including The State and Labor in Modern America and Hard Work: The Making of Labor History.

JOSEPH A. MCCARTIN is Associate Professor of History in the Department of History at Georgetown University, USA. He is the author of Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-21 and editor of We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World.