Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation The Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) reminds all that the deadline for application for its sixth annual Dissertation Prize is coming up on January 31st, 2013. This prize has been established with the cooperation with the University of Illinois Press.
LAWCHA, founded in 1998, encourages the study of working-class men and women, their lives, workplaces, communities, organizations, cultures, political activities, and societal contexts. It aims to promote an international, theoretically informed, comparative, interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and diverse labor and working-class history. Its journal is the prize-winning LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas.
The prize is named in honor of the late Herbert G. Gutman, who was a pioneering labor historian in the U.S. and a founder of the University of Illinois Press's "Working Class in American History" Series. LAWCHA hopes that the spirit of Gutman's inquiry into the many facets of labor and working-class history will live on in this prize. The winner will receive a cash prize of $500 from LAWCHA and a publishing contract with the University of Illinois Press. The prize is contingent upon the author's acceptance of the contract with the University of Illinois Press.
Eligible dissertations must be in English, concerned with U.S. labor and working-class history broadly conceived, and must have been defended in the academic year 2011-12 (September 1, 2011-August 31, 2012).
Applicants must be current members of LAWCHA at the time of the submission. The winner will be announced at our national conference.
Send (4) four hard copies of the dissertation, along with a letter of endorsement from the dissertation advisor stating the date of the defense, by January 31st, 2013 to:
LAWCHA
226 Carr Building (East Campus)
Duke University
Box 90719
Durham, NC 27708-0719
Cecelia Bucki, Ph.D.
Professor of History
LAWCHA National Secretary
Fairfield University
[Cross-posted, with thanks, from H-Labor]