Craig Phelan and Gerald Friedman, the editors of Labor History, and Routledge would like to congratulate the winners of the Labor History prizes for 2009:
Best articles
Best article, US topic
Timothy J. Minchin, 'It Knocked This City To Its Knees': The Closure of Pillowtex Mills in Kannapolis, North Carolina and the Decline of the U.S.
Textile Industry
Labor History 50:3
Best article, non-US or comparative topic
Michael Hughes, "The Knife in the Hands of the Children"? Debating the Political Mass Strike and Political Citizenship in Imperial Germany
Labor History 50:2
Best article by a scholar within five years of doctorate completion
Robert Cliver, Minzhu Guanli: The Democratization of Factory Management in the Chinese Revolution
Labor History 50:4
Best book
David Witwer
Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009.ISBNs: 978-0-252-03417-6 (cloth); 978-0-252-07666-4 (paper)
Best PHD dissertation
Winner
Jason Schulman, After Labourism: The Neoliberal Turn by Labor Parties and the Response by Trade Unions City University of New York - Supervisor: Susan L. Woodward
Runners Up:
Verónica Martínez-Matsuda, Making the Modern Migrant: Work, Community, and Struggle in the Federal Migratory Labor Camp Program, 1935-1947 University of Texas at Austin - Supervisor: Emilio Zamora
Mingwei Liu, Chinese Employment Relations and Trade Unions in Transition Cornell University - Supervisor: Sarosh Kuruvilla
Further details about the prizes can be found on the Labor History website: