Dubofsky’s a History of Labor in America

Dubofsky’s a History of Labor in America

The book by Melvyn Dubofsky, Labor in America: A History is presented in a way to offer an overview of the American Labor since the colonial era to date. The work gets researched and particularly well suited to communicate to the modern concerns of students and teachers. It is evident that the issue of rising inequality, exacerbated job insecurity, declining unionization, and stagnating incomes are the standard description of labor in the past two decades. The book offers guidance and lessons for the new generation of teachers and students that seek to understand work and its position while reflecting on the future of labor in the future of America.

I believe the approach by Melvyn Dubofsky to focus on the ‘labor question’ provides explicitly a lens to which analysis, teachers, and students see the factors that affect labor in America. I believe his stance on political pull on the matter is validated, considering most scholars contend that the state acts in ways intended to suppress democracy and autonomy in trade unions. His vies that countries like America have backed up laws that rendered unions servants of capital and states contradicting their initial purpose (Dubofsky&McCartin, 2017). The author believes that the state and union relationships are more complicated than it gets let on to get considered.

As much as the state intervention has come with apparent consequences for unions, the book states positive outcomes at specific junctures in the history of America. Melvyn focuses on the six periods by which in administrative policy formation, union influence, varying combinations, and popular politics on the executive and legislative branches operated. The periods get meant to promote stability through the advancement of worker interests and their organizations..

Reference

Dubofsky, M., &McCartin, J. A. (2017). Labor in America: A history. John Wiley & Sons.