Melvyn Dubofsky
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Melvyn Dubofsky is professor emeritus of history and sociology, and a well-known labor historian. He is Bartle Distinguished Professor of History and Sociology at the Binghamton University. Dubofsky helped advance the field of "new labor history," which focuses on the experiences of workers and social movements rather than institutions.
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Published Works
- We Shall be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World. (1970) (172)
- The State and Labor in Modern America. (1995) (124)
- The Oxford companion to United States history (2001) (69)
- Labor in America: A History (1966) (68)
- Industrialism and the American worker, 1865-1920 (1975) (54)
- Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Period (1989) (40)
- The United States in the twentieth century (1978) (40)
- Radicalism in the States: The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party and the American Political Economy (1989) (35)
- We Shall Be All (1969) (35)
- The origins of western working class radicalism, 1890–1905∗ (1966) (35)
- John L. Lewis: A Biography (1986) (34)
- A Generation of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America (1988) (31)
- When Workers Organize: New York City in the Progressive Era (1968) (25)
- The state & labor in modern America (1994) (24)
- Hard Work: The Making of Labor History (2001) (21)
- Some of Our Mothers and Grandmothers: The Making of the "New" Jewish Woman@@@Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation. (1991) (20)
- A Brotherhood of Memory: Jewish Landsmanshaftn in the New World (1989) (19)
- Not So “Turbulent Years”: Another Look at the American 1930’s (1979) (18)
- Labor Leaders in America (1988) (16)
- The "New" Labor History: Achievements and Failures@@@Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America: Essays in American Working-Class and Social History. (1977) (15)
- Hard Work: The Making of Labor History@@@Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South (2000) (13)
- Labor in America (1994) (11)
- Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security (2005) (11)
- Success and failure of socialism in New York city, 1900–1918: A case study (1968) (10)
- The Oxford encyclopedia of American business, labor, and economic history (2013) (8)
- Legal Theory and Workers' Rights: A Historian's Critique (1981) (7)
- The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy (2012) (7)
- Give us that old time labor history: Philip S. Foner and the American worker (1985) (6)
- "Big Bill" Haywood (1987) (6)
- Reviews (2007) (6)
- John L. Lewis (1977) (6)
- Imperial democracy: The United States since 1945 (1983) (6)
- American labor since the New Deal (1971) (6)
- Wages and Hours: Labor and Reform in Twentieth-Century America (1984) (6)
- The Winnipeg strike, 1919 (1974) (5)
- Technological Change and Workers′ Movements (1985) (5)
- Organized labor and the immigrant in New York city, 1900–1918 (1961) (4)
- Daniel Webster and the Whig Theory of Economic Growth: 1828-1848 (1969) (4)
- Lost in a fog: Labor historians' unrequited search for a synthesis (1991) (4)
- Frank Murphy: The New Deal Years. (1979) (4)
- The Lattimer Massacre and the Meaning of Citizenship (2002) (4)
- The IWW at One Hundred: The Return of the Haunted Hall? (2005) (3)
- Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent (2011) (2)
- Women and minorities during the Great Depression (1990) (2)
- Christopher L. Tomlins, The State and the Unions: Labor Relations, Law, and the Organized Labor Movement in America, 1880-1960 , New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. 340. $39.50 (ISBN: 0 521 25840 5). (1986) (2)
- Strike-Breaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America. By Stephen H. Norwood. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, xii + 328 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0-807-82705-3 (2003) (2)
- The President's Commission, (1986) (2)
- The Past and Future Contradictions and Challenges of Labor Leadership (2000) (2)
- A stroll down memory lane: my fifty years-plus association with Labor History (2009) (2)
- Labor History symposium: responses (2010) (2)
- The Legacy of the Ludlow Massacre: A Chapter in American Industrial Relations. By Howard M. Gitelman · Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. xv + 355 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95. (1989) (2)
- The New Deal (1990) (1)
- The law and the New Deal (1990) (1)
- “Without Blare of Trumpets”: Walter Drew, the National Erectors' Association, and the Open Shop Movement, 1903–1957. By Fine Sidney. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995. Pp. viii, 384. $49.50 (1996) (1)
- Letters of Eugene V. Debs (1990) (1)
- Papers of the National War Labor Board, 1918-1919 (1985) (1)
- Book Review: History: Culture of Misfortune: An Interpretive History of Textile Unionism in the United States (2003) (1)
- American Labor and Foreign Policy (1971) (1)
- Coal-Mining Safety in the Progressive Period: The Political Economy of Reform. By William Graebner. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1976. xii + 244 pp. Chart, tables, notes, bibliographical note, bibliography of primary sources, and index. $16.75.) (1977) (1)
- Raising Less Corn and More Hell: Two Disciples of Mary Ellen Lease (1995) (1)
- The Next Time We Strike: Labor in Utah's Coal Fields, 1900-1933 Allan Kent Powell (1986) (1)
- Keep the Wretches in Order: America's Biggest Mass Trial, the Rise of the Justice Department, and the Fall of the Iww (2020) (1)
- Where the Fraser River Flows: The Industrial Workers of the World in British Columbia Mark Leier (1991) (1)
- Hold the Fort: The Dynamics of Twentieth-Century American Working Class History@@@Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the Twentieth Century Struggle.@@@Workers' Control in America: Studies in the History of Work, Technology, and Labor Struggles. (1981) (1)
- The Extension of Solidarity Conflicts with the Spirit of Individualism (1987) (1)
- The Hardrock Miners: A History of the Mining Labor Movement in the American West, 1863–1893. By Richard E. Lingenf elter. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974. viii + 278 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $12.50.) (1975) (1)
- Film as history: History as drama‐some comments on “The Wobblies,”; a play by Stewart Bird and Peter Robilotta, and “The Wobblies”; a film by Stewart Bird and Deborah Shaffer (1981) (1)
- The Kikuchi Diary: Chronicle From an American Concentration Camp: Kikuchi, Charles: (edited and with an Introduction by John Modell): (The Tanforan Journals of Charles Kikuchi): Urbana: The University of Illinois Press, 258 pp., Publication Date: October 23, 1973 (1974) (1)
- U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations, 1912-1915 [microform] : unpublished records of the Division of Research and Investigation : reports, staff studies, and background research materials (1985) (1)
- Philip Roth's “America” and Mine1 (2010) (1)
- Old Deal, New Deal, Raw Deal: The Evolution of the Liberal State in the Modern United States (1993) (1)
- The devil is not in the details: he is Stalin! (2003) (1)
- We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World@@@Joe Hill@@@Bread and Roses Too: Studies of the Wobblies (1971) (1)
- Starting out in the fifties: True confessions of a labor historian (1993) (1)
- Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry from 1812 to the Present. By Leon Fink. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. 278 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978-0-807-83450-3 (2012) (1)
- Edward B. Shils et al. Industrial Peacemaker: George W. Taylor's Contribution to Collective Bargaining. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1979. Pp. xi, 244. $22.50 (1981) (1)
- Labor and Socialism in America: The Gompers Era by William M. Dick (review) (2016) (0)
- The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century . By Kim Voss. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993. 290p. $39.95 cloth, $16.95 paper. (1994) (0)
- Were Gompers and the AFL Radical (2013) (0)
- Labor's Odd Couple: Philip Murray and John L. Lewis (2019) (0)
- Labor Rights as Global Human Rights (2003) (0)
- Book Review: Labor Organizations: History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Volume IV: The Industrial Workers of the World, 1905–1917 (1967) (0)
- Book Reviews (2008) (0)
- Mitchell Newton-Matza. Intelligent and Honest Radicals: The Chicago Federation of Labor and the Politics of Progression. (2014) (0)
- Department of Justice investigative files [microform]. Part I. The Industrial Workers of the World / edited by Melvyn Dubofsky. (1989) (0)
- Victor Berger and the Promise of Constructive Socialism, 1910–1920: Miller, Sally M.: Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 275 pp., Publication Date: May 1973 (1973) (0)
- Era of Economic Change and Union Decline, Since 1973 (2004) (0)
- When Workers Organize: New York City in the Progressive Era. (1969) (0)
- Myth and History@@@Support for Secession: Lancashire and the American Civil War. (1973) (0)
- The Master of Seventh Avenue: David Dubinsky and the American Labor Movement; The Triangle Fire, the Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy in Progressive New York (2006) (0)
- A Muted Fury: Populists, Progressives, and Labor Unions Confront the Courts, 1890-1939 (1995) (0)
- Reviews of Books:State of the Union: A Century of American Labor Nelson Lichtenstein (2002) (0)
- Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle (2001) (0)
- The Industrial union bulletin (1970) (0)
- John L. Lewis@@@John L. Lewis: A Biography. (1978) (0)
- Frank L. Grubbs, Jr. The Struggle for Labor Loyalty: Gompers, the A. F. of L., and the Pacifists, 1917–1920. Durham: Duke University Press. 1968. Pp. viii, 172. $7.50 (1971) (0)
- Donald E. Winters, Jr. The Soul of the Wobblies: The I.W.W., Religion, and American Culture in the Progressive Era, 1905–1917. (Contributions in American Studies, number 81.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 1985. Pp. 159. $27.95 (1986) (0)
- American foreign policy in the 1930s (1990) (0)
- Book Review: History: Fighting against the Odds: A History of Southern Labor since World War II (2006) (0)
- Agriculture During the Great Depression (1990) (0)
- Adam's Curse: Or the Drudgery of Work@@@Work without Salvation: America's Intellectuals and Industrial Alienation, 1880-1910.@@@The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920. (1978) (0)
- American labor : a documentary collection (2004) (0)
- Labor in the Colonial and Early National Periods, to 1828 (2004) (0)
- After the Strike: A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman (2005) (0)
- Union Busting in the Tri-State: The Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri Metal Workers' Strike of 1935. By George G. Suggs, Jr. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986. xiv + 282 pp. $22.50.) (1987) (0)
- Elizabeth McKillen. Making the World Safe for Workers. Labor, the Left, and Wilsonian Internationalism . [The Working Class in American History.] University of Illinois Press, Urbana [etc.] 2013. xii, 299 pp. Ill. $55.00. (2014) (0)
- Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film (2004) (0)
- Book Review: Politics, Government, and Industrial Relations: Frank Murphy: The New Deal Years (1980) (0)
- Book Review: Industrial Relations, Politics, and Government: Bargaining with the State (1995) (0)
- The Rise of Free Labor, the Factory System, and Trades Organization, 1828–1877 (2004) (0)
- Labor in america : a history / Melvyn Dubofsky, Joseph A. Mccartin (2017) (0)
- Workers in a Maturing and Industrial Society, 1877–1914 (2004) (0)
- Forgotten Radicals: Communists in the Pennsylvania Anthracite, 1919-1950 (2007) (0)
- Books reviewed: The world of Andrew Carnegie, 1865–1901: The odyssey of Louis M. Hacker∗ (1969) (0)
- The Golden Sword: The Coming of Capitalism to the Colorado Mining Frontier. By Michael Neuschatz. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 301. $37.95 (1987) (0)
- William Graebner. Coal-Mining Safety in the Progressive Period: The Political Economy of Reform . (Lexington. Ky.: The University Press of Kentucky, 1976), 244, pp. (1976) (0)
- The Era of the Postwar Social Contract, 1947–1973 (2004) (0)
- Paul D. Moreno. Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 334. $49.95 (2007) (0)
- Contributors (2003) (0)
- The I.W.W. and the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913. By Anne Huber Tripp. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987. Pp. xiv, 317. $29.95 (1988) (0)
- David Dubinsky: A Life with Labor. By David Dubinsky and A. H. Raskin. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1977. Pp. 351. $9.95. (1978) (0)
- Labor in New Mexico: Unions, Strikes, and Social History Since 1881 Robert Kern (1984) (0)
- The American economy during the Great Depression (1990) (0)
- Labor History symposium: assessing Howell John Harris, The Right to Manage, after 30 years (2012) (0)
- "Big Bull" Haywood (1989) (0)
- Abortive Reform: (2018) (0)
- Hard Times in Paradise: Coos Bay, Oregon, 1850-1986 William G. Robbins (1990) (0)
- Ship of Fools: Labor Adventurers in Southeast Asia (2007) (0)
- The Politics of Non-Assimilation: The American Jewish Left in the Twentieth Century (2018) (0)
- American Labor: A Documentary History (2006) (0)
- The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1863–1925. By David Montgomery. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xii + 494 pp. $27.95.) (1988) (0)
- The industrial union bulletin: An introduction and appraisal (1971) (0)
- Technological Change and Workers' Movements: Explorations in the World-Economy. Vol. 4. (1988) (0)
- Essays in Canadian Working Class History. Ed. by Gregory S. Kealey and Peter Warrian. (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1976. 231 pp. Maps, tables, illustrations, notes, and bibliographic essay. Paper, $4.95.) (1977) (0)
- Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War. By Thomas G. Andrews . (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2008. xii + 386 pp. $29.95) (2010) (0)
- Book Review: Historical Studies: Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (2004) (0)
- Notes on contributors (2005) (0)
- Book reviews: Industrial relations, politics, and government (1995) (0)
- Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor during World War II. By Andrew E. Kersten. New York: New York University Press, 2006. xiii + 273 pp. Index, notes, tables, illustrations. Cloth, $42.00. ISBN: 0-814-748786-8 (2007) (0)
- American Labor, Congress, and the Welfare State, 1935–2010 (2013) (0)
- Book Review: History: Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America (2007) (0)
- Progressive Inequality : Rich and Poor in New York, 1890–1920, by David HuyssenProgressive Inequality : Rich and Poor in New York, 1890–1920, by David Huyssen. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2014. 378 pp. $39.95 US (cloth). (2015) (0)
- Neither Upstairs, nor Downstairs: Domestic Service in Middle-Class American Homes@@@A Stranger in the House.@@@Seven Days a Week: Women and Domestic Service in Industrializing America. (1980) (0)
- Nelson Lichtenstein and Howell John Harris, eds., Industrial Democracy in America: The Ambiguous Promise . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. ix + 293 pp. $44.95 cloth. (1994) (0)
- Carlos A. Schwantes, Radical Heritage: Labor, Socialism, and Reform in Washington and British Columbia, 1885–1914. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1979. 288 pp. (1980) (0)
- Book Review: History: The Revival of Labor Liberalism (2009) (0)
- The Origins and Evolution of the Field of Industrial Relations in the United States. By Bruce E. Kaufman · Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 1992. xv + 286 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00. ISBN 0-87546-191-3 (1994) (0)
- Wars, Depression, and the Struggle for Industrial Democracy, 1914–1947 (2004) (0)
- Present at the Creation: Labor and the Making of the New Deal Order (1997) (0)
- Charles W. Romney. Rights Delayed: The American State and the Defeat of Progressive Unions, 1935–1950. (2017) (0)
- The Primacy of Politics (1997) (0)
- Labor Leaders in American History (1988) (0)
- The Origins of the Labor Movement in the United States: Themes From the Nineteenth Century (1991) (0)
- Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience. Edited by Eric Arnesen, Julie Greene, and Bruce Laurie · Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xiii + 382 pp. Index and bibliography. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0252024079; paper, $19.95. ISBN 025206710X (1999) (0)
- Books Reviewed: The I.W.W. — An exchange of views (1970) (0)
- Progressive Inequality: Rich and Poor in New York, 1890-1920 by David Huyssen (review) (2015) (0)
- Book Review: Labor Organizations: Industrialization and the American Labor Movement, 1850–1900 (1978) (0)
- State of the Union (Book) (2002) (0)
- Comments by Reviewers@@@Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement. (1992) (0)
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