The Taft Prize competition was funded through a bequest from Philip Taft and sponsored by the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University since 1979. Publishers are advised of the start of the competition each January, and the award is announced each Fall. In addition to the recognition, the Prize carries a monetary award of $1,000. For more information, visit the award's official site.
Recent winners include:
2006
James N. Gregory, The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America
2005
Dorothy Sue Cobble, The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America
2004
Frank Tobias Higbie, Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers & Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930
Robert Rodgers Korstad, Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers & the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth Century South
2003
Nelson Lichtenstein, State of the Union: A Century of American Labor
2002
Alice Kessler-Harris, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th Century America
2001
Gunther Peck, Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880-1930
2000
Jefferson Cowie, Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor
1999
Joseph A. McCartin, Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921
