Philip Taft Labor History Book Award

The Philip Taft Labor History Book Award is sponsored by the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations 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:

*1978 – David M. Katzman for " Seven Days a Week: Women and Domestic Service in Industrializing America "
*1979 – August Meier, Elliott Rudwick for " Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW "
*1981 – James A. Gross for " Reshaping of the National Labor Relations Board: A Study in Economics, Politics, and the Law "
*1981 no award given
*1982 – Alice Kessler-Harris for " Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States "
*1982 – Howell John Harris for " The Right to Manage: Industrial Relations Policies of American Business in the 1940's "
*1983 – Licht Walter for " Working for the Railroad "
*1984 – Paul Avrich for " The Haymarket Tragedy "
*1984 – Robert H. Zieger for " Rebuilding the Pulp and Paper Workers' Union, 1933-1941 "
*1985 – Jacqueline Jones for " Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow "
*1986 – Alexander Keyssar for " Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts "
*1987 – Jacquelyn Dowd Hall , James Leloudis , Robert Korstad , Mary Murphy , Christopher B. Daly , 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 – Joshua B. Freeman for " In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933-1966 "
*1989 – Philip Scranton for " Figured Tapestry: Production, Markets and Power in Philadelphia Textiles, 1855-1941 "
*1990 – Lizabeth Cohen for " Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 "
*1991 – Steve Fraser 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 Way for " Common Labor: 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 United States "
*1995 – Robert H. 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 "
*1999 – Joseph A. 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, Jefferson 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 " Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism "
*2004 – Frank Tobias Higbie for " Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930 "
*2004 – Robert Rodgers 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 "

External links

* [http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/taftaward/ Philip Taft Labor History Book Award at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations]
* [http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?bookaward=Philip+Taft+Labor+History+Book+Award Philip Taft Labor History Book Award at lovethebook]