| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.1

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Book Review

Hard Work: The Making of Labor History. By Melvyn Dubofsky . (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. x, 249 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-252-02551-2. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0252-06868-8.)

To read through this book of essays, written over the span of three decades, is something of an ambivalent experience. Melvyn Dubofsky has certainly made vital contributions to the field of labor history: one cannot understand the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and its rough-and-ready western milieu, the tortured relationship of organized labor and national politics, or the transnational dimensions of industrial change and union power without consulting his work. 1

Yet such an anthology inevitably turns one's thoughts to the author's status in his chosen field. And, as Dubofsky nears retirement from the academy, it must be acknowledged that his writings have not left as clear a mark on scholarship in labor history as those of David Montgomery, David Brody, Alice Kessler-Harris, or the late Herbert Gutman—who were born in the same era and share the same political niche in the class-conscious left. . . .

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