Hard Work: The Making of Labor History. By Melvyn Dubofsky. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000. Pp. x, 249. $49.95, cloth; $17.95, paper

Gerald Friedman

The Journal of Economic History, 2001, vol. 61, issue 1, 227-229

Abstract: The no-longer-so-New Labor History has reached that venerable age where its founders write reflective autobiographical essays to introduce collections of their publications. And well might Melvyn Dubofsky prepare such an essay and collection. Present at the creation of the New Labor History, Dubofsky has shaped the development of labor history as a teacher and researcher since the 1960s. He has written works essential to any study of American labor history, including the history of the International Workers of the World, We Shall be All (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1969), biographies of labor leaders John L. Lewis (John L. Lewis: A Biography. New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., 1977, written with Warren W, Van Tine) and William D. Haywood (“Big Bill” Haywood, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987), and a study of labor in American political economy, The State and Labor in Modern America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994).

Date: 2001
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