The Philip Taft Labor History Book Award is sponsored by the
Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
The New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University (ILR) is an industrial relations school and one of the four New York State contract colleges at Cornell University, located in Ithaca, New York, United States. The ...
in cooperation with the
Labor and Working-Class History Association
The Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) 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 move ...
for books relating to
labor history of the United States
The labor history of the United States describes the history of organized labor, US labor law, and more general history of working people, in the United States. Beginning in the 1930s, unions became important allies of the Democratic Party.
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. 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).
Recipients
Source ILR School, Cornell University
*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. Gross for ''Reshaping of the National Labor Relations Board: A Study in Economics, Politics, and the Law''
*1982 – co-winners: Alice Kessler-Harris 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 Avrich
Paul Avrich (August 4, 1931 – February 16, 2006) was a historian of the 19th and early 20th century anarchist movement in Russia and the United States. He taught at Queens College, City University of New York, for his entire career, from 19 ...
for ''The Haymarket Tragedy''; and Robert Zieger for ''Rebuilding the Pulp and Paper Workers' Union, 1933–1941''
*1985 –
Jacqueline Jones
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James Leloudis
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Joshua Freeman
Joshua B. Freeman (born 1949) is an author and professor of history at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY) and the CUNY Graduate Center.Philip Scranton
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Douglas Flamming
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for ''Creating the Modern South: Millhands and Managers in Dalton, Georgia, 1884–1984''
*1993 –
Peter Way
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for ''Common Labour: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals, 1780–1860''
*1994 –
Eileen Boris
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for ''Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the U.S.''
*1995 – Robert Zieger for ''The CIO, 1935–1955''
*1996 – Thomas J. Sugrue for '' The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit''
*1997 – Sanford M. Jacoby for ''Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal''
*1999 – Joseph McCartin 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-Harris for ''In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th Century America''
*2003 – Nelson Lichtenstein 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
Dorothy Sue Cobble (June 28, 1949) is an American historian, and a specialist in the historical study of work, social movements, and feminism in the United States and worldwide. She is currently a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University, h ...
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''
*2011 - James D. Schmidt for ''Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor''
*2012 - Cindy Hahamovitch for ''No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor''
*2013 – co-winners: Matt Garcia for ''From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement''; and Kimberley Phillips for ''War! What Is It Good For?: Black Freedom Struggles and the U.S. Military from World War II to Iraq''
*2014 - Matthew L. Basso for ''Meet Joe Copper: Masculinity and Race on Montana’s World War II Home Front''
*2015 - Sven Beckert for '' Empire of Cotton: A Global History'' (Knopf)
*2016 - co-winners: Nancy Woloch for ''A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s-1990s''; and Talitha L. LeFlouria for ''Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South''
*2017 - LaShawn Harris for ''Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy''
*2018 - Sarah F. Rose for ''No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s-1930s''
*2019 - co-winners: Peter Cole (Historian) for ''Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area''; and
Joshua Freeman
Joshua B. Freeman (born 1949) is an author and professor of history at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY) and the CUNY Graduate Center.Vincent DiGirolamo for ''Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys.''
*2021 - Nate Holdren for ''Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era''