The Philip Taft Labor History Book Award is sponsored by the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations in cooperation with the Labor and Working-Class History Association for books relating to labor history of the United States. Labor history is considered "in a broad sense to include the history of workers, 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.
Recipients
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1978 – David M. Katzman for Seven Days a Week: Women and Domestic Service in Industrializing America
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 State of the Union: A Century of American Labor
2004 – co-winners: Frank Tobias Higbie for Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880–1930; and Robert 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
2009 - co-winners: Thavolia Glymph for Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household; and Jana K. Lipman for Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution
2010 - Seth Rockman for Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore
2011 - James D. Schmidt for Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor
2012 - Cindy Hahamovitch for No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor
2014 - Matthew L. Basso for Meet Joe Copper: Masculinity and Race on Montana’s World War II Home Front
2015 - Sven Beckert for Empire of Cotton: A Global History
2016 - co-winners: Nancy Woloch for A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s-1990s; and Talitha L. LeFlouria for Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South
2017 - LaShawn Harris for Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy
2018 - Sarah F. Rose for No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s-1930s
2019 - co-winners: Peter Cole for Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area; and Joshua Freeman for Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
2020 - Vincent DiGirolamo for Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys.
