One of American labor history's most prominent scholars, Melvyn Dubofsky
curated an accessible style and historical reach that have long marked
his work as required reading for students and scholars.
This collection juxtaposes Dubofsky's early writings with scholarship
from the 1990s. Selections include work on western working-class
radicalism, U.S. labor history in transnational and comparative
settings, and the impact of technological change on American worker's
movements. Throughout, the writings provide an invaluable eyewitness
perspective on the academic and political climate of the 1960s and 1970s
while tracing the development of labor history as a discipline.
An exploration of important themes in labor history, Hard Work
combines essential scholarship with the story of how past and present
interact in the work of historians.