Labnet: 2006 Labor History Prizes

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2006 Labor History Prizes

 

We at Labor History are delighted to announce the winners of the journal's annual prizes.

 

BEST BOOK PRIZE ($1000 US)
Nancy MacLean
Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace
Harvard University Press, 2006



BEST PhD DISSERTATION PRIZE (£750)
Jarod Heath Roll
'Road to the Promised Land: Rural Rebellion in the New Cotton South, 1890-1945'
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 2006

 

BEST ARTICLE PRIZES (£250 each)
1. Best Article - Young Scholar
Simon Constantine, "Migrant Labor in the German Countryside: Agency and Protest, 1890-1923" (Labor History, August 2006)

2. Best Article - U.S. Topic
Andrew Dawson, "A New Framework for Workshop Contracting: Philadelphia Machine Building, 187-1914" (Labor History, August 2006)

3. Best Article - Comparative or Non-U.S. Topic
Jock McCulloch, "The Mine at Wittenoom: Blue Asbestos, Labour and Occupational Disease" (Labor History, February 2006)

Congratulations to all our winners.

 

Find out how you can enter our prize competitions for 2007 by visiting: 

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pdf/announcements/clah_06.pdf

 

 

Craig Phelan

Editor, Labor History

 

 


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