Nelson Lichtenstein

Nelson Lichtenstein (born November 15, 1944) is an American historian. He is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy.[4] He is labor historian who has written also about 20th-century American political economy, including the automotive industry and Wal-Mart.

Nelson Lichtenstein
Academic background
EducationPhD
ThesisIndustrial unionism under the no-strike pledge: a study of the CIO during the Second World War[1] (1974)
Academic work
Doctoral studentsJennifer Klein,[2] Meg Jacobs[3]

Life and education

Lichtenstein received his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College in 1966 and his Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974.[5] He is MacArthur Foundation Chair in History at UCSB.

Awards

Lichtenstein was named a junior fellow by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in 1982 and senior NEH fellow in 1993. He received a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to undertake research at Wayne State University in 1990. He held a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1997-98. He was elected to membership in the Society of American Historians in 2007 and became MacArthur Foundation Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara in 2010.

Lichtenstein's book State of the Union: A Century of American Labor won the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award in 2003. The Sidney Hillman Foundation awarded him the Sol Stetin Prize in 2012

Books

Solely authored works
  • Walter Reuther, The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1997. ISBN 0-252-06626-X Internet Archive link
  • Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003. ISBN 1-59213-197-2 Google Books link
  • State of the Union: A Century of American Labor. New edition. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-691-11654-7 Google Books link
  • The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business.New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2009. ISBN 0-8050-7966-1

Co-authored works
  • Who Built America? Vol. 2: 1865 to the Present, with Roy Rosenzweig and Joshua Brown. Boston: Bedford Books, 2007.
  • A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism with Judith Stein (Princeton University Press, 2023)

Edited works
  • Industrial Democracy in America, co-edited with Harris Howell John. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
  • Major Problems in the History of American Workers, with Eileen Boris. Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
  • American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. ISBN 0-8122-3923-7 Google Books link
  • Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism. New York: The New Press, 2005. Cloth ISBN 1-59558-035-2; Paperback ISBN 1-59558-021-2
  • The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination, co-edited with Elizabeth Tandy Shermer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.

References
  1. Lichtenstein, Nelson (1974). Industrial unionism under the no-strike pledge: a study of the CIO during the Second World War (PhD). OCLC 229038098. ProQuest 302709298.
  2. Klein, Jennifer (2003). For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State. Princeton: Princeton University Press. p. x. ISBN 0691126054.
  3. Jacobs, Meg (1998). The politics of purchasing power: Political economy, consumption politics, and state-building, 1909-1959 (PhD). OCLC 44185250. ProQuest 304459366.
  4. Nelson Lichtenstein UCSB Page
  5. Dartmouth Department of History Newsletter

Further reading
  • Who's Who in the South and Southwest. 24th ed. New Providence, N.J.: Marquis Who's Who, 2002.
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