Nelson Lichtenstein (born November 15, 1944) is a professor of

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at the

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, and director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy. He is labor historian who has written also about 20th-century

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, including the

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and

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Life and education

Lichtenstein received his

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from

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in 1966 and his

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in history from the

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in 1974.Dartmouth Department of History Newsletter
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Awards

Lichtenstein was named a junior fellow by the

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(NEH) in 1982 and senior NEH fellow in 1993. He received a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to undertake research at

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in 1990. He held a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1997-98. He was elected to membership in the Society of American Historians in 2007 and became MacArthur Foundation Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara in 2010. Lichtenstein's book ''State of the Union: A Century of American Labor'' won the

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in 2003. The Sidney Hillman Foundation awarded him the Sol Stetin Prize in 2012

Books

Solely authored works

*''Walter Reuther, The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit.'' Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1997.
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*''Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II.'' Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003.
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*''State of the Union: A Century of American Labor.'' New edition. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003.
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*''The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business.''New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2009.

Co-authored works

*''Who Built America? Vol. 2: 1865 to the Present,'' with Roy Rosenzweig and Joshua Brown. Boston: Bedford Books, 2007.

Edited works

*''Industrial Democracy in America,'' co-edited with Harris Howell John. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. *''Major Problems in the History of American Workers,'' with Eileen Boris. Houghton Mifflin, 2002. *''American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century.'' Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
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*''Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism.'' New York: The New Press, 2005. Cloth ; Paperback *''The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination'', co-edited with Elizabeth Tandy Shermer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.

References

External links

Nelson Lichtenstein UCSB Faculty homepage"Twenty Questions with Nelson Lichtenstein," ''In These Times''NPR interview with Lichtenstein on Wal-Mart, 2009NPR interview with Lichtenstein about Taft-Hartley Act, 2002
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