Book awards: Philip Taft Labor History Book Award

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Seven Days a Week: Women and Domestic Service in Industrializing America by David M. Katzman1978
Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW by August Meier1979
Reshaping of the National Labor Board by James A. Gross1981
Out to Work: The History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States (Galaxy Books) by Alice Kessler-Harrisco-recipient, 1982
The Right to Manage: Industrial Relations Policies of American Business in the 1940's by Howell John Harrisco-recipient, 1982
Working for the Railroad: The Organization of Work in the Nineteenth Century by Walter Licht1983
The Haymarket Tragedy by Paul Avrichco-recipient, 1984
Rebuilding the Pulp and Paper Workers' Union, 1933-1941 by Robert H. Ziegerco-recipient, 1984
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family, from Slavery to the Present by Jacqueline Jones1985
Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts by Alexander Keyssar1986
Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall1987
Workers' Health, Workers' Democracy: the Western Miners' Struggle, 1891-1925 by Alan Derickson1988
Figured Tapestry: Production, Markets, and Power in Philadelphia Textiles, 1885-1941 by Philip Scrantonco-recipient, 1989
In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933-1966 : With a New Epilogue (Labor in Crisis) by Joshua B. Freemanco-recipient, 1989
Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 by Lizabeth Cohen1990
Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor. by Steven Fraser1991
Creating the Modern South: Millhands and Managers in Dalton, Georgia, 1884-1984 (Fred W Morrison Series in Southern Studies) by Douglas Flamming1992
Common Labour by Peter Way1993
Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States by Eileen Boris1994
The CIO, 1935-1955 by Robert H. Zieger1995
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit by Thomas J. Sugrue1996
Modern Manors by Sanford M. Jacoby1997
Labor's great war : the struggle for industrial democracy and the origins of modern American labor relations, 1912-1921 by Joseph A. McCartin1999
Capital Moves: RCA's 70-Year Quest for Cheap Labor by Jefferson R. Cowie2000
Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880-1930 by Gunther Peck2001
In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America by Alice Kessler-Harris2002
State of the Union: A Century of American Labor by Nelson Lichtenstein2003
Civil Rights Unionism by Robert Rodgers Korstadco-recipient, 2004
Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930 by Frank Tobias Higbieco-recipient, 2004
The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America by Dorothy Sue Cobble2005
The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America by James N. Gregory2006
Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace (Russell Sage Foundation Books at Harvard University Press) by Nancy MacLean2007
Battling the Plantation Mentality by Laurie B. Green2008
Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution (American Crossroads) by Jana Lipmanco-recipient, 2009
Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household by Thavolia Glymphco-recipient, 2009
Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore by Seth Rockman2010
Industrial violence and the legal origins of child labor by James D. Schmidt2011

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Philip Taft Labor History Book Award
The Philip Taft Labor History Book Award is given to the best book on the history of American labor published in the preceding calendar year. The award is sponsored by the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations in cooperation with the Labor and Working-Class History Association. The award carries a cash prize of $2,000.

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