Nelson Lichtenstein | Academic Influence

Nelson Lichtenstein's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings

Nelson Lichtenstein

History

#2674

World Rank

#3799

Historical Rank

#1012

USA Rank

Economic History

#72

World Rank

#91

Historical Rank

#10

USA Rank

history Degrees

Download Badge

History

Nelson Lichtenstein's Degrees

PhD History University of California, Berkeley
Masters History University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley

Similar Degrees You Can Earn

Best Online Bachelor’s of History 2025

Why Is Nelson Lichtenstein Influential?

(Suggest an Edit or Addition)

According to Wikipedia, Nelson Lichtenstein 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. He is labor historian who has written also about 20th-century American political economy, including the automotive industry and Wal-Mart.

(See a Problem?)

Nelson Lichtenstein's Published Works

Number of citations in a given year to any of this author's works

Total number of citations to an author for the works they published in a given year. This highlights publication of the most important work(s) by the author

Published Works

State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (2003) (373)
Opportunities Found and Lost: Labor, Radicals, and the Early Civil Rights Movement (1988) (213)
Labor's war at home : the CIO in World War II (1983) (158)
The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business (2009) (141)
Wal-Mart : the face of twenty-first-century capitalism (2006) (128)
Labor in Crisis@@@North American Auto Unions in Crisis: Lean Production as Contested Terrain.@@@Talking Union.@@@The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor. (1995) (105)
China’s New Labour Contract Law: Is China Moving Towards Increased Power for Workers? (2009) (95)
Walter Reuther: The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit (1997) (58)
Auto Worker Militancy and the Structure of Factory Life, 1937–1955 (1980) (40)
A New World of Retail Supremacy: Supply Chains and Workers' Chains in the Age of Wal-Mart (2006) (39)
Industrial Democracy in America. The Ambiguous Promise (1996) (38)
UAW Bargaining Strategy and Shop‐Floor Conflict: 1946–1970 (1985) (35)
The temp economy : from Kelly Girls to permatemps in postwar America (2011) (34)
Achieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy (2017) (33)
On the Line: Essays in the History of Auto Work, Nelson Lictenstein and Stephen Meyer, eds. 1988. University of Illinois Press, Champaign, IL. ISBN: 0-252-06015-6. $12.95 (1989) (28)
American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century (2006) (28)
Industrial Democracy in America: The Ambiguous Promise. (1994) (27)
Taft-Hartley: A Slave-Labor Law? (1998) (26)
An Accident in History (2014) (24)
State of the Union (2002) (22)
Labor's War at Home (1982) (19)
Class Politics and the State during World War Two (2000) (16)
China's New Labour Contract Law: is China moving towards increased power for workers? (2009) (16)
The right and labor in America : politics, ideology, and imagination (2012) (16)
WAL-MART AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER A TEMPLATE FOR TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY CAPITALISM? (2005) (16)
Labor in the Truman era: origins of the “private welfare state” (1989) (14)
Labour, Liberalism, and the Democratic Party: A Vexed Alliance (2012) (14)
The Communist Experience in American Trade Unions (1980) (13)
The Port Huron Statement: Sources and Legacies of the New Left's Founding Manifesto (2015) (12)
The Return of Merchant Capitalism (2012) (10)
A Contest of Ideas: Capital, Politics and Labor (2012) (9)
The Making of the Postwar Working Class: Cultural Pluralism and Social Structure in World War II (1988) (9)
Authorial Professionalism and the Literary Marketplace 1885-1900 (1978) (8)
Ambiguous legacy: The union security problem during World War II (1977) (8)
Supply Chains, Workers' Chains, and the New World of Retail Supremacy (2007) (8)
Getting the Goods: Ports, Labor, and the Logistics Revolution (2009) (7)
Despite EFCA's Limitations, Its Demise Is a Profound Defeat for U.S. Labor (2010) (7)
1. Outsourcing Horror: Why Apparel Workers Are Still Dying, One Hundred Years after Triangle Shirtwaist (2017) (6)
Twenty-First Century “Populism:” Not for the Unions and a Good Thing Too (2016) (6)
The Communist Party and the Auto Workers Unions by Roger Keeran (1981) (6)
How to Win (2019) (6)
Major problems in the history of American workers : documents and essays (2003) (5)
What's next for organized labor ? (1999) (5)
Class Unconsciousness (2012) (5)
9. Two Cheers for Vertical Integration: Corporate Governance in a World of Global Supply Chains (2017) (5)
Why Labor Moved Left (2015) (5)
Two Roads Forward for Labor: The AFL–CIO’s New Agenda (2013) (5)
Sectoral Bargaining in the United States (2022) (4)
Confronting American Labor: The New Left Dilemma (2004) (4)
In the Age of Wal-Mart: Precarious Work and Authoritarian Management in the Global Supply Chain (2010) (4)
Can This Election Save the Unions? (2012) (4)
5. The Demise of Tripartite Governance and the Rise of the Corporate Social Responsibility Regime (2017) (4)
A Contest of Ideas (2013) (4)
Beyond disciplinary boundaries: Leveraging complementary perspectives on global labour (2017) (4)
Industrial unionism under the no-strike pledge : a study of the CIO during the Second World War (1982) (3)
Who Killed Obamacare? (2017) (3)
4. The Twilight of CSR: Life and Death Illuminated by Fire (2017) (3)
Reuther the Red (2003) (3)
American Labor, Congress, and the Welfare State, 1935–2010 (2012) (3)
The New Minority: White Working-Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality by Justin Gest (review) (2017) (3)
Recasting the Movement and Reframing the Law in Risa Goluboff's The Lost Promise of Civil Rights (2010) (3)
The Port Huron Statement (2015) (2)
Herbert Hill in History and Contention (2006) (2)
Deadline for Action; Our Union; The Great Swindle (2005) (2)
3. Corporate Social Responsibility: Moving from Checklist Monitoring to Contractual Obligation? (2017) (2)
David Montgomery and the Idea of “Workers' Control” (2013) (2)
Introduction: Social Theory and Capitalist Reality in the American Century (2006) (2)
Divisions of Labor History@@@Working-Class America: Essays on Labor, Community, and American Society.@@@Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II. (1984) (2)
Fighting for Total Person Unionism (2016) (2)
The Long History of Labor Bashing. (2011) (2)
2. From Public Regulation to Private Enforcement: How CSR Became Managerial Orthodoxy (2017) (2)
6. Deepening Compliance?: Potential for Multistakeholder Communication in Monitoring Labor Standards in the Value Chains of Brazil’s Apparel Industry (2017) (1)
The Hawk's Nest Incident: America's Worst Industrial Disaster. By Martin Cherniack. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. xi + 194 pp. $19.95.) (1987) (1)
Response to Martin Glaberman; Reply to Nelson Lichtenstein (1997) (1)
Jimmy Carter's Economy: Policy in an Age of Limits. By W. Carl Biven. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xvi, 346 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-8078-2738-X.) (2004) (1)
Introduction: Entangled Histories: American Conservatism and the U.S. Labor Movement in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (2012) (1)
Class Unconsciousness: Stop Using “Middle Class” to Depict the Labor Movement (2012) (1)
Labor and the New Congress: A Strategy for Winning (2011) (1)
12. The Sustainable Apparel Coalition and Higg Index: A New Approach for the Apparel and Footwear Industry (2017) (1)
Labor and social history records at the Catholic University of America (1990) (1)
Rejoinder to Sharon Smith (2003) (1)
13. Learning from the Past: The Relevance of Twentieth-Century New York Jobbers’ Agreements for Twenty-First-Century Global Supply Chains (2017) (1)
Introduction: Achieving Workers’ Rights in the Global Economy (2017) (1)
Industrial Democracy in America: The Ambiguous Promise (1994) (1)
A Covert Life: Jay Lovestone, Communist, Anti‐Communist, and Spymaster: Ted Morgan (1999) (1)
Why American Unions Need Intellectuals (2010) (1)
World War II and the American Home Front (2012) (1)
David Brody: Heir to the Wisconsin school (1993) (1)
The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945–1968. By Kevin Boyle. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. xvi, 338pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8014-3064-X.) (1996) (1)
From Corporatism to Collective Bargaining: (2020) (1)
WAL-MART'S TALE OF TWO CITIES: FROM BENTONVILLE TO SHENZHEN (2006) (1)
IDEOLOGY AND INTEREST ON THE SOCIAL POLICY HOME FRONT (2010) (1)
The American Communist Party in Its Heyday: A Case of Premature Eurocommunism? (1984) (1)
Tragedy in the Fields: The Self-destruction of the United Farm Workers (2012) (1)
The War on Labor and the Left: Understanding America's Unique Conservatism. By Patricia Cayo Sexton. (Boulder: Westview, 1991. x + 325 pp. Cloth, $24.95, ISBN 0-8133-1062-8. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8133-1063-6.) (1993) (0)
Frank Murphy: The New Deal Years. By Sidney Fine. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979. xi + 708 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $42.00.) (1980) (0)
Are Trade Unions and Their Members “Populist”? (2019) (0)
“Thick” States and “Thin” States, in a New Era of Merchant Power (2017) (0)
A Chinese Dystopia: Designed in California (2021) (0)
Comparative History of a Very High Standard, But It Is Still Tough to Make It Work (2021) (0)
Reuther the Red? (Controversies/Controverses) (2003) (0)
Capital Gains: Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America (2018) (0)
LABOR HISTORY IN THE REALIST VEIN (2016) (0)
Chapter 12. Wal-Mart, John Tate, and Their Anti-Union America (2012) (0)
Vincent Curcio. Chrysler: The Life and Times of an Automotive Genius. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xiv + 699 pp. ISBN 0-19-507896-9. $35.00 (2001) (0)
Even vassals get vacations (1997) (0)
AMERICAN RADICALS: MARGIN AND MAINSTREAM (2016) (0)
Chapter 1. Reconstructing the 1930s (2013) (0)
Lubell, The Future of American Politics (2007) (0)
Symposium on Barry Eidlin’s Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada (2021) (0)
National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation Form (2004) (0)
Vanishing Jobs in a Racialized America (2000) (0)
1. Walmart’s Long March to China: How a Mid-American Retailer Came to Stake Its Future on the Chinese Economy (2019) (0)
Trashing Identity Politics: Does It Really Get Us Back to Class? (2005) (0)
Chapter 11. Port Huron and the New Left Movements in Federal Germany (2015) (0)
Introduction (2013) (0)
10. Labor Transformation in China: Voices from the Frontlines (2017) (0)
The General Textile Strike of 1934: From Maine to Alabama. By John A. Salmond. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. xii + 295 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs. Cloth, $37.50. ISBN 0-826-21395-2 (2003) (0)
8. Ideology and Interest on the Social Policy Home Front (2011) (0)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WHAT-OR WHO-STARTED THE GREAT DEPRESSION? (2009) (0)
Wage Theft Along California's South Coast: A Survey of Low Wage Workers in Santa Barbara (2015) (0)
Channeling the Past: Politicizing History in Postwar America (2014) (0)
PREFACE TO THE 2013 EDITION (2013) (0)
14. Workers of the World Unite!: The Strategy of the International Union League for Brand Responsibility (2017) (0)
An American Approach to Social Democracy: The Forgotten Promise of the Fair Labor Standards Act (2019) (0)
The ILO and the Corporate Social Responsibility Regime in East and South Asia (2016) (0)
Rewriting Labor's Narrative (2007) (0)
Labor History in the Realist Vein@@@American Workers, American Unions, 1920-1985. (1987) (0)
Book Reviews (1983) (0)
Workers' Rights Are Civil Rights (1999) (0)
Prosperity for All: Consumer Activism in an Era of Globalization. By Matthew Hilton. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,2009. xi + 315 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $26.95. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8014-4644-3; paper, 978-0-801-47507-8 (2010) (0)
Reinventing “The People” (2017) (0)
Chapter 6. A Moment of Convergence (2015) (0)
Walmart, John Tate, and their anti-union America (2012) (0)
The Norman Thomas Papers, 1904–1967. 85 reels with printed guide. 35 mm microfilm. (Alexandria, Va.: Chadwyck-Healey, 1986. $4,250.) (1988) (0)
Class, Collars, and the Continuing Relevance of C. Wright Mills (2004) (0)
INDUSTRIAL SOCIOLOGY FOR LABOR HISTORIANS (2016) (0)
Political Profiles: The Eisenhower Years@@@Political Profiles: The Kennedy Years@@@Political Profiles: The Johnson Years (1979) (0)
Industrial Sociology for Labor Historians@@@The Electrical Workers: A History of Labor at General Electric and Westinghouse, 1923-60. (1984) (0)
The Revolutionary Marx (2014) (0)
Chapter 7. Reorganizing the House of Labor (2013) (0)
City of Clerks (2017) (0)
Corporate Power, American Democracy, and the Automobile Industry (review) (2002) (0)
8. Assessing the Risks of Participation in Global Value Chains (2017) (0)
Class Struggle Aboard the Titanic (1998) (0)
Chapter 9. How Labor Can Win (2008) (0)
World War II and the American Home Front Theme Study (2004) (0)
Discussione su "Colletti bianchi. La classe media americana" di C. Wright Mills (2002) (0)
Letters (2012) (0)

This paper list is powered by the following services:

Other Resources About Nelson Lichtenstein

en.wikipedia.org

What Schools Are Affiliated With Nelson Lichtenstein?

Nelson Lichtenstein is affiliated with the following schools: