Walter Licht
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- PhD History University of California, Berkeley
- Masters History University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Walter Licht is an American historian who specializes in labor history, economic history, and the history of American capitalism. He is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Published Works
- Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century (1995) (102)
- Working for the Railroad: The Organization of Work in the Nineteenth Century (1983) (66)
- Birds of Passage: Migrant Labor and Industrial Societies. By Michael J. Piore and Contested Terrain: The Transformation of the Workplace in the Twentieth Century. By Richard Edwards (1981) (52)
- The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century (2005) (48)
- Getting Work: Philadelphia, 1840-1950 (1992) (47)
- From Blood Vessels to Global Networks of Exchange: The Physiology of Benjamin Rush's Early Republic (2012) (17)
- Work Sights: Industrial Philadelphia, 1890-1950 (1986) (16)
- The Electrical Workers: A History of Labor at General Electric and Westinghouse, 1923–1960. By Ronald W. Schatz. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983. xv + 279 pp. $22.95.) (1986) (15)
- How the Workplace Has Changed in 75 Years. (1988) (14)
- Solidarity and Fragmentation: Working People and Class Consciousness in Detroit, 1875–1900 . By Richard Jules Oestreicher. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1986. Pp. xix, 263. $24.95. (1987) (12)
- The New England Working Class and the New Labor History (1988) (11)
- From steel to slots: casino capitalism in the postindustrial city (2019) (9)
- Another Civil War: Labor, Capital, and the State in the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania, 1840–68. By Grace Palladino (Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1990. xii plus 195pp. $26.50) (1991) (8)
- Gender and Economic Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region, 1920–1970 (2000) (7)
- Cultural History/Social History (1992) (7)
- Fringe Benefits: A Review Essay on the American Workplace (1998) (7)
- The Mechanics of Baltimore: Workers and Politics in the Age of Revolution, 1763–1812.. By Charles G. Steffen. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1984. Pp. xv, 296. $24.95 (1985) (6)
- Labor's men: A collective biography of union officialdom during the new deal years (1978) (5)
- Forging a union of steel : Philip Murray, SWOC, and the United Steelworkers (1988) (5)
- Working for the Railroad (2014) (4)
- 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)
- Chapter 9 The Rise and Embedding of the Corporation Considerations for American Democracy and Citizenship (2014) (2)
- Democratic Miners: Work and Labor Relations in the Anthracite Coal Industry, 1875–1925. By Perry K. Blatz (Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1994. xv plus 368pp.) (1996) (2)
- Labor Economics and the Labor Historian (1982) (2)
- "Without Blare of Trumpets": Walter Drew, the National Erectors' Association, and the Open Shop Movement, 1903-57. (1997) (1)
- Neither Pure Nor Simple (1999) (1)
- Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality (review) (2003) (1)
- The Knights of Labor Commemorated and Reconsidered@@@Dreaming of What Might Be: The Knights of Labor in Ontario, 1880-1900@@@Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics (1985) (1)
- The business of Civil War: military mobilization and the state, 1861-1865 - By Mark R. Wilson (2008) (1)
- Norman Ware's The Industrial Worker Revisited: Reflections on Recent Writings on Early American Industrialization (1986) (1)
- The historical meanings of work (1991) (1)
- Nineteenth-century American railwaymen : a study in the nature and organization of work (1977) (1)
- Book Review: Lives of Their Own: Blacks, Italians, and Poles in Pittsburgh, 1900-1960, and Workers' World: Kinship, Community, and Protest in an Industrial Society, 1900-1940, by Walter Licht (1983) (0)
- COLE, Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia (2009) (0)
- The Real World of Nineteenth-Century Labor: The Case of the Railroaders@@@Working for the Railroad: The Organization of Work in the Nineteenth Century.@@@Men of the Steel Rails: Workers on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, 1869-1900. (1984) (0)
- Book Reviews: Philadelphia Stories: A Photographic History, 1920-1960, by Frederic M. Miller, Morris J. Vogel, and Allen F. Davis (1989) (0)
- 3. Working to Rule (1987) (0)
- The Communist Party and the Auto Workers Unions. By Roger Keeran. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980. 340 pp. Hardbound, $22.50. (1981) (0)
- Glass Towns: Industry, Labor, and Political Economy in Appalachia, 1890–1930s (2009) (0)
- 4. The Rewards of Labor (1987) (0)
- Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn: Paul Revere and the Growth of American Enterprise (review) (2012) (0)
- 7. The Legacy of the Early Years: Conclusions (1987) (0)
- Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalism. By Michael Burawoy (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1980. xvii + 267 pp. $20.00) (1982) (0)
- David Gordon, Richard Edwards, and Michael Reich, Segmented Work, Divided Workers: The Historical Transformation of Labor in the United States . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. 288 pp. (1984) (0)
- The River Ran Red Steffi Domike Nicole Fauteaux (1995) (0)
- 1. The View from the Top (1987) (0)
- Book Review: Historical Studies: The Practice of Solidarity: American Hat Finishers in the Nineteenth Century (1987) (0)
- Book Review: The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War, by Iver Bernstein (1991) (0)
- Foreword (2018) (0)
- A Russian Looks at America: The Journey of Aleksandr Borisovich Lakier. Translated and edited by Arnold Schrier and Joyce Story. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979. Pp. xli, 272 (1980) (0)
- Homage and questions (1991) (0)
- Howell John Harris, The Right to Manage: Industrial Relations Policies of American Business in the 1940s . Madison, Wisc.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982. 296 pp. (1984) (0)
- Fueling the Gilded Age: Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in Pennsylvania Coal Country by Andrew B. Arnold (review) (2015) (0)
- a class of new industrialists comprised the leadership of the emerging Repub lican party. They championed high tariffs, industry, moral reform, and loyalty to the Union cause. While the patricians among them sponsored (2016) (0)
- Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry/The Roots of American Industrialization (2005) (0)
- Fueling the Gilded Age: Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in Pennsylvania Coal Country. By Andrew B. Arnold (New York, New York University Press, 2014) 277 pp. $49.00 (2015) (0)
- A Generation of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America. By Shelton Stromquist (University of Illinois Press, 1987. xix plus 353 pp. $29.95) (1989) (0)
- :Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry.(Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia.);The Roots of American Industrialization.(Creating the North American Landscape.) (2005) (0)
- Workers and Workplace Dynamics in Reconstruction-Era Atlanta: A Case Study. Afro-American Culture and Society, a CAAS Monograph Series, Volume 10. (1992) (0)
- Book Reviews: Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1850, by Judith McGaw, ed. (1996) (0)
- Coal, Class and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915–32. By Joe William Trotter (Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1990. xvi plus 290 pp. $44.95/cloth $14.95/paper) (1993) (0)
- Daniel Willard and Progressive Management on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. By David M. Vrooman · Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1991. xvi + 218 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps, notes, and index. $42.50. ISBN 0-8142-0552-6 (1994) (0)
- Book Review: Philadelphia Politics from the Bottom Up: The Life of Irishman William McMullen, 1824-1901, by Harry C. Silcox (1991) (0)
- Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877. By David O. Stowell. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xii, 181 pp. Cloth, $31.00, ISBN 0-226-77668-9. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-226-77669-7.) (2000) (0)
- With Our Hands: The Story of Carpenters in Massachusetts. By Mark Erlich. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986. xv + 239 pp. $29.95.) (1987) (0)
- 6. The Railwaymen: A Social Profile (1987) (0)
- Common Labour: Workers & the Digging of North American Canals, 1780–1860. By Peter Way (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xvii plus 304pp (1995) (0)
- 5. The Perils of Labor (1987) (0)
- Book Review: The Workers' World at Hagley, by Glenn Porter (1982) (0)
- David Koistinen. Confronting Decline: The Political Economy of Deindustrialization in Twentieth-Century New England. (2015) (0)
- Carmen Teresa Whalen. From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia: Puerto Rican Workers and Postwar Economies . Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 2001. xv + 309 pp. ISBN 1-56639-835-5, $74.50 (cloth); 1-56639-836-3, $24.95 (paper). (2002) (0)
- In Memoriam: Alan Dawley (1943-2008) (2008) (0)
- Book Review: Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850, by Walter Licht (1985) (0)
- Forging a Union of Steel: Philip Murray, SWOC, and the United Steelworkers. Ed. by Paul F. Clark, Peter Gottlieb, and Donald Kennedy. (Ithaca: ILR Press, 1987. vii + 153 pp. Cloth, $22.50; paper, $8.95.) (1988) (0)
- Book Review: Historical Studies: “Without Blare of Trumpets”: Walter Drew, the National Erectors#x0027; Association, and the Open Shop Movement, 1903–57 (1997) (0)
- 2. The Supply of Labor (1987) (0)
- The Rise and Fall of Mass Production (review) (2001) (0)
- Working for Pullman: Two Films (1984) (0)
- Keystone of Democracy: A History of Pennsylvania Workers (2001) (0)
- Book Reviews: Making the Amalgamated: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Baltimore Clothing Industry, 1899-1939, by Jo Ann E. Argersinger (2003) (0)
- United States (1983) (0)
- Power at Odds: The 1922 National Railroad Shopmen's Strike (review) (1999) (0)
- The National War Labor Board: Stability, Social Justice, and the Voluntary State in World War I. By Valerie Jean Conner. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983. xi + 234 pp. $23.50.) (1984) (0)
- Work Hazards and Industrial Conflict. By Carl Gersuny. Hanover, New Hampshire, University Press of New England, 1981. Pp. xiii + 162. $14.00 (1982) (0)
- Book Review: Home & Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic, by Jeanne Boydston (1993) (0)
- CURRÁ and MATKOSKY, Stories from the Mines (2008) (0)
- Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW. By August Meier and Elliott Rudwick. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. xii + 289 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $15.00.) (1980) (0)
- Working-Class Americanism: The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914–1960. By Gary Gerstle (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xii + 356 pp. $39.50) (1991) (0)
- 1995 North American Labor History Conference (1997) (0)
- Cotton Row to Beale Street: A Business History of Memphis. By Robert A. Sigafoos. Memphis, Memphis State University Press, 1979. Pp. xv + 384. $21.95 (1980) (0)
- The Railroaders. By Stuart Leuthner. (New York: Random House, 1983. vii + 152 pp. $19.95.) (1985) (0)
- The Practice of Solidarity: American Hat Finishers in the Nineteenth Century. (1987) (0)
- Which Side were You on? The American Communist Party During the Second World War. By Maurice Isserman. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1982. 300 pp. Hardbound, $17.95. (1984) (0)
- Outward Bound (2009) (0)
- The Rational Factory: Architecture, Technology, and Work in America's Age of Mass Production (review) (1999) (0)
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