Philip Taft Labor History Book Award Winners

The Philip Taft Labor History Book Award is an annual award for the book judged by the Award Committee to be the outstanding book on American labor hi ...more

Winners

	Japanese American Incarceration: The Camps and Coerced Labor During World War II by Stephanie D. Hinnershitz 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938 by Sònia Hernández really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys by Vincent Richard DiGirolamo (Goodreads Author) 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s-1930s by Sarah F. Rose 4.17 avg rating — 30 ratings Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy by LaShawn Harris 4.19 avg rating — 75 ratings Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South by Talitha L. LeFlouria 4.27 avg rating — 112 ratings Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s-1990s by Nancy Woloch 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert 3.87 avg rating — 3,039 ratings Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meet Joe Copper: Masculinity and Race on Montana's World War II Home Front by Matthew L. Basso 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	War! What Is It Good For?: Black Freedom Struggles and the U.S. Military from World War II to Iraq by Kimberley L. Phillips (Contributor) 3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement by Matthew García 4.02 avg rating — 43 ratings Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor by Cindy Hahamovitch 4.11 avg rating — 37 ratings Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor by James D. Schmidt it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore by Seth Rockman 4.09 avg rating — 312 ratings Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution by Jana Lipman 4.04 avg rating — 24 ratings Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household by Thavolia Glymph 4.28 avg rating — 401 ratings Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle by Laurie B. Green really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29 ratings Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace by Nancy MacLean 3.97 avg rating — 77 ratings Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America by James N. Gregory 3.82 avg rating — 72 ratings Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America by Dorothy Sue Cobble 3.70 avg rating — 77 ratings Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South by Robert Rodgers Korstad 4.19 avg rating — 58 ratings Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (2004)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930 by Frank Tobias Higbie 3.80 avg rating — 20 ratings Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (2004)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	State of the Union: A Century of American Labor by Nelson Lichtenstein 3.76 avg rating — 156 ratings Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (2003)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America by Alice Kessler-Harris 3.74 avg rating — 77 ratings Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (2002)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880-1930 by Gunther Peck 3.55 avg rating — 22 ratings Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (2001)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor by Jefferson R. Cowie 3.81 avg rating — 133 ratings Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (2000)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921 by Joseph A. McCartin 3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (1999)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal by Sanford M. Jacoby really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (1997)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit by Thomas J. Sugrue 4.23 avg rating — 2,067 ratings Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (1996)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The CIO, 1935-1955 by Robert H. Zieger 3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (1995)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars