FOR OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION IN UNITED STATES LABOR AND WORKING-CLASS HISTORY
The Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) is pleased to announce its second annual Dissertation Prize. 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 2009-10 (September 1, 2009-August 31, 2010). Applicants must be members of LAWCHA at the time of the submission. The winner will be announced by March 15, 2011.
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 November 30, 2010 to:
LAWCHA
c/o Sanford Institute of Public Policy
Duke University
Box 90239
Durham, NC 27708-0239
Past Winners Listed Below
2010 Winner: Jessie B. Ramey, “A Childcare Crisis: Poor Black and White Families and Orphanages in Pittsburgh, 1878-1929” (Carnegie-Mellon University, Advisor: Tera W. Hunter
2009 Winner: Michael Rosenow, “Injuries to All: The Rituals of Dying and the Politics of Death among United States Workers, 1877-1910” (University of Illinois, Advisor: James R. Barrett)
2008 Winner: Jarod Roll, “Road to the Promised Land: Rural Rebellion in the New Cotton South, 1890-1945” (Northwestern University, Advisor: Nancy Maclean)