About the Taft Award
~2009 NOMINATION INFORMATION~
PLEASE NOTE: NEW EARLIER NOMINATION DEADLINE!
I am pleased to announce the beginning of the 32nd annual competition for the Philip Taft Labor History Award. The competition is open to any book (or books) published in 2008 relating to the history of American labor. 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.
A copy of each nominated book should be sent directly to each member of the Award Committee at the address listed. The Award is offered by the ILR School at Cornell University, in cooperation with the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA).
Please nominate books no later than DECEMBER 15, 2008. (We will accept page proofs for books published during the last two weeks of December.)
The winner of this year’s prize will be announced at LAWCHA's 2009 Spring meeting: Race, Labor, and the City: Crises Old and New to be held Thursday, May 28 - Saturday, May 31, 2009, at Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois.
The 2008 Taft Award winner was Laurie B. Green for her book, Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle (University of North Carolina Press).
Sincerely,
Ileen A. DeVault
Chair, Philip Taft Labor History Award Committee
