Henry Kraus (November 13, 1905 in

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– January 27, 1995 in

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) was a labor

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, and European

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. He graduated from the

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and

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with a master's degree in 1928. He was an organizer of the Flint Sit-Down Strike, and edited ''The Flint Auto Worker''. Sol Dollinger was critical of his account of the strike. He married Dorothy Kraus, who helped organize the UAW Women's Auxiliary. He was the first editor of the United Automobile Workers' newspaper, ''The United Auto Worker''. He moved to Paris, and worked as a European correspondent for World Wide Medical News Service. His papers are at the

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Awards

* 1984

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Archival Collections

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date from 1926-1960. His papers reflect his attempts to organize auto workers and the early history of the

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from 1935-1941. Particularly well-documented in the collection are the Flint sit-down strike and factionalism within the UAW.

Works

''Heroes of Unwritten Story''
University of Illinois Press, 1994,
''The Many and the Few''
University of Illinois Press, 1947, *''The Living Theater of Medieval Art,'' Indiana University Press, 1967 (reprint University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972, ) *''Hidden World of Misericords,'' Authors Dorothy Kraus, Henry Kraus, Joseph, 1976,
''Gothic Stalls of Spain''
Authors Dorothy Kraus, Henry Kraus, Routledge, 1986, *''Gold Was the Mortar: The Economics of Cathedral Building.'' Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979,

References

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University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project {{DEFAULTSORT:Kraus, Henry 1905 births 1995 deaths University of Chicago alumni Case Western Reserve University alumni Labor historians 20th-century American historians 20th-century American male writers MacArthur Fellows American male non-fiction writers