I am pleased to announce the beginning of the 33rd annual competition for the Philip Taft Labor History Award. The competition is open to any book (or books) published in 2009 relating to the history of American labor. The Award is offered by the ILR School at Cornell University, in cooperation with the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA). I invite your nomination of any and every eligible book for consideration.
The prize committee defines "labor history" 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.
Please nominate books no later than December 15, 2009. (We will accept page proofs for books published during the last two weeks of December.) For full nomination information and a complete list of previous winners, please visit: [url]http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/taftaward[/url]
.The winner of this year's prize will be announced at the Spring LAWCHA meeting.
The co-winners of the 2009 Taft Award were Thavolia Glymph for her book Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (Cambridge University Press) and Jana K. Lipman for her book Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution (University of California Press).
Sincerely,
Ileen A. DeVaultChair, Taft Labor History Prize Committee
Ileen A. DeVault
Professor of Labor History
School of Industrial and Labor Relations Cornell University
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