“[Dubofsky] likes the historical imaginations of social scientists, and his method is to blend their insights within a traditional framework focused on the Presidency in order to 'bring the state back in' to labor history.” — New York Times Book Review
“The State and Labor in Modern America is an excellent book with many powerful and well-substantiated points.” — Industrial and Labor Relations Review
“An expert guide to the half-century of political and legal turmoil that preceded Taft-Hartley and a persuasive reaffirmation of the significance of organized labor in twentieth-century history.” — American Historical Review
“Dubofsky’s analysis is bracing and should generate much debate.” — Journal of American History
“A masterful history of the federal law of industrial disputes and collective bargaining in the century after 1873. . . . The State and Labor in Modern America is also first-rate history, the best synthesis yet published of the public policy of labor relations in industrial America.” — Reviews in American History
“This expert historical essay should be read by all political scientists.” — Political Science Quarterly
“An outstanding example of historical scholarship. . . . It both surveys the broad scope of over 100 years of labor-state relations and establishes a standard by which subsequent work in the field will be measured. The book is written with great clarity and exemplary fair-mindedness while at the same time advancing forthright and convincing perspectives on a wide range of complex and controversial issues.” — Robert H. Zieger, University of Florida
“[This] deeply informed and wise book . . . restores the cogency of the liberal argument and sets the scholarly standard against which all future work on state-labor relations in modern America will be tested.” — David Brody, University of California, Davis
