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.

Melvyn Dubofsky is Bartle Distinguished Professor of History & Sociology, Binghamton University, SUNY. He is recipient of Fellowships from the ACLS, American Philosophical Society, and NEH and author of numerous books and essays in history, including: When Workers Organize: New York City in the Progressive Era; We Shall Be All: A History of the IWW; Industrialism and the American Worker, 1865-1920 (Three Editions, 1975-1996); John L. Lewis: A biography; "Big Bill" Haywood; The State and Labor in Modern America; Hard Work: The Making of Labor History.

Joseph McCartin is Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University. He is author of Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-21, which won the 1999 Taft Prize for Outstanding Book in U.S. Labor History.