Melvyn dubofsky biography

American labor historian (born 1934)

Melvyn Dubofsky (born October 25, 1934) 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.

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Dubofsky helped advance the field of "new labor history," which focuses on the experiences of workers and social movements rather than institutions.

[Dubofsky] is one of the five major labour historians who pioneered new approaches to working-class experience in the 1950s and 1960s. Along with Herbert G.

Gutman, David Montgomery, David Brody, and Alice Kessler-Harris, Dubofsky researched, wrote about, and taught courses in labour history at a time when the field was not in fashion and there was little appreciation and support for the study of workers and their pasts.^[1]

Since the early 1980s, Dubofsky has written extensively about the role of politics and state action in the changing fortunes of th John L.

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