Melvyn Dubofsky (born October 25, 1934) is professor emeritus of history and sociology, and a well-known labor historian.
Dubofsky helped advance the field of "new labor history," which focuses on the experiences of workers and social movements rather than institutions.
[1]Since the early 1980s, Dubofsky has written extensively about the role of politics and state action in the changing fortunes of the American labor movement.
In the 1969 to 1970 term, Dubofsky was a senior lecturer at the Centre for the Study of Social History at the University of Warwick.
[citation needed] He is an editor for the Research Collections on Labor Studies for University Publications of America, an American publisher.
Dubofsky also is on the Board of Advisors for the Samuel Gompers Papers, and is a member of the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award prize committee.
His is a member of the editorial board of Labor History and Review (Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center).