Philip Taft Labor History Book Award
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The Philip Taft Labor History Book Award is sponsored by the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
in cooperation with the Labor and Working-Class History Association
for books relating to labor history of the United States
. Labor history is considered "in a broad sense to include the history of workers (free and unfree, organized and unorganized), their institutions, and their workplaces, as well as the broader historical trends that have shaped working-class life, including but not limited to: immigration, slavery, community, the state, race, gender, and ethnicity." The award is named after the noted labor historian Philip Taft
(1902–1976).
Winners of the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award:
Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
The New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations is an industrial relations school at Cornell University, an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, USA...
in cooperation with the Labor and Working-Class History Association
Labor and Working-Class History Association
Labor and Working-Class History Association is a non-profit association of academics, educators, students, and labor movement and other activists that promotes research into and publication of materials on the history of the labor movement in North and South America...
for books relating to labor history of the United States
Labor history of the United States
The labor history of the United States describes the history of organized labor, as well as the more general history of working people, in the United States. Pressures dictating the nature and power of organized labor have included the evolution and power of the corporation, efforts by employers...
. Labor history is considered "in a broad sense to include the history of workers (free and unfree, organized and unorganized), their institutions, and their workplaces, as well as the broader historical trends that have shaped working-class life, including but not limited to: immigration, slavery, community, the state, race, gender, and ethnicity." The award is named after the noted labor historian Philip Taft
Philip Taft
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(1902–1976).
Winners of the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award:
- 1978 – David M. Katzman for Seven Days a Week: Women and Domestic Service in Industrializing America
- 1979 – August Meier and Elliott Rudwick for Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW
- 1980 - no award made
- 1981 – James A. GrossJames A. GrossJames A. Gross is an American educator and historian who teaches United States labor law and labor history at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations...
for Reshaping of the National Labor Relations Board: A Study in Economics, Politics, and the Law - 1982 – co-winners: Alice Kessler-HarrisAlice Kessler-HarrisAlice Kessler-Harris is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History at Columbia University, in New York City. She specializes in the history of American labor and the comparative and interdisciplinary exploration of women and gender....
for Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States; and Howell John Harris for The Right to Manage: Industrial Relations Policies of American Business in the 1940s - 1983 – Walter Licht for Working for the Railroad
- 1984 – co-winners: Paul AvrichPaul AvrichPaul Avrich was a professor and historian. He taught at Queens College, City University of New York, for most of his life and was vital in preserving the history of the anarchist movement in Russia and the United States....
for The Haymarket Tragedy; and Robert ZiegerRobert ZiegerRobert H. "Bob" Zieger is a renowned labor historian whose research focuses on the labor history of the United States.-Early years:...
for Rebuilding the Pulp and Paper Workers' Union, 1933–1941 - 1985 – Jacqueline JonesJacqueline JonesJacqueline Jones is Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas and Mastin Gentry White Professor of Southern History at the University of Texas at Austin, United States. She is an expert in American social history in addition to writing on economics , women, and class.- Background :Born in...
for Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present - 1986 – Alexander KeyssarAlexander KeyssarAlexander Keyssar is an American historian, and the Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard University.-Life:He graduated from Harvard University with a PhD in the History of American Civilization...
for Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts - 1987 – Jacquelyn Dowd HallJacquelyn Dowd HallJacquelyn Dowd Hall is an American historian, and Julia Cherry Spruill Professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.-Life:She graduated from Columbia University with an MA and Ph.D...
, James Leloudis, Robert Korstad, Mary Murphy, Christopher B. Daly, and Lu Ann Jones for Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World - 1988 – Alan Derickson for Workers' Health, Workers' Democracy: The Western Miners Struggle, 1891–1925
- 1989 – co-winners: Joshua FreemanJoshua FreemanJoshua B. Freeman is a professor of history at Queens College, City University of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the former executive officer of the Graduate Center's history department. Freeman is often called the "dean of new york writers."-Childhood and education:Freeman was born...
for In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933–1966; and Philip Scranton for Figured Tapestry: Production, Markets and Power in Philadelphia Textiles, 1855–1941 - 1990 – Lizabeth CohenLizabeth CohenLizabeth Cohen is the current Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies and Chair of the History Department at Harvard University. Currently, she teaches courses in 20th century America, material and popular culture, and gender, urban, and working-class history. She has also served as the...
for Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939 - 1991 – Steve FraserSteve FraserSteve Fraser was the 1984 Olympic Gold Medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling in the 198 lb weight class. A native of Hazel Park, Michigan, Fraser was a Michigan High School Athletic Association state wrestling champion and later an All-American in wrestling at the University of Michigan...
for Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor - 1992 – Douglas Flamming for Creating the Modern South: Millhands and Managers in Dalton, Georgia, 1884–1984
- 1993 – Peter WayPeter Way-Life:He graduated from Trent University, in 1981, Queen's University with an M.A., in 1983, and University of Maryland, College Park with a Ph.D., in 1991.He taught at Bowling Green State University....
for Common Labour: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals, 1780–1860 - 1994 – Eileen Boris for Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the U.S.
- 1995 – Robert ZiegerRobert ZiegerRobert H. "Bob" Zieger is a renowned labor historian whose research focuses on the labor history of the United States.-Early years:...
for The CIO, 1935–1955 - 1996 – Thomas J. Sugrue for The Origins of the Urban CrisisThe Origins of the Urban CrisisThe Origins of the urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit, is the first book by historian and Detroit native Thomas J. Sugrue in which he examines the role race, housing and job discrimination played in the decline of Detroit. Sugrue argues that the decline of Detroit began long...
: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit - 1997 – Sanford M. Jacoby for Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal
- 1999 – Joseph McCartinJoseph McCartinJoseph A. McCartin is a professor of history at Georgetown University whose research focuses on labor unions in the United States.-Early life and education:...
for Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912–1921 - 2000 – Jefferson R. Cowie for Capital Moves: RCA's 70-Year Quest for Cheap Labor
- 2001 – Gunther Peck for Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880–1930
- 2002 – Alice Kessler-HarrisAlice Kessler-HarrisAlice Kessler-Harris is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History at Columbia University, in New York City. She specializes in the history of American labor and the comparative and interdisciplinary exploration of women and gender....
for In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th Century America - 2003 – Nelson LichtensteinNelson LichtensteinNelson Lichtenstein is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy...
for State of the Union: A Century of American Labor - 2004 – co-winners: Frank Tobias Higbie for Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880–1930; and Robert Korstad for Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South
- 2005 – Dorothy Sue Cobble for The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America
- 2006 – James N. Gregory for The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America
- 2007 – Nancy MacLean for Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace
- 2008 – Laurie B. Green for Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle
- 2009 - co-winners: Thavolia Glymph for Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household; and Jana K. Lipman for Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution
- 2010 - Seth Rockman for Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore