Even since the last edition of this milestone text was released
six years ago, unions have continued to shed members; union
membership in the private sector of the economy has fallen to
levels not seen since the nineteenth century; the forces of
economic liberalization (neo-liberalism), capital mobility, and
globalization have affected measurably the material standard of
living enjoyed by workers in the United States; and mass
immigration from the Southern Hemisphere and Asia has continued to
restructure the domestic labor force.
Yet even in the face of anti-union legislation, a continuing
decline in the number of organized workers, and the fear of
stateless, if not faceless terrorism--the shadow of "911" in which
we still live, in preparing this new edition of his classic text
Professor Dubofsky has hewn to the lines laid out in the previous
seven in seeking to encourage today's students of labor history to
learn about those who built the United States and who will shape
its future.
In addition to taking the narrative right up to the present, a
recent history that includes the election of 2008 as well as the
tumultuous blow suffered by the U.S. and world economy in 2008-09,
this eighth edition features an entirely new (fourth) bank of
photographs and, in light of the avalanche of new scholarly work
over the last decade, a complete overhauling of the book's
extensive and critical Further Readings section in order to note
the very best works from the profuse recent scholarship that
explores the history of working people in all its diversity.
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