28th Annual Competition for the Philip Taft Award Location: United States / Prize Date: 2005-05-01
[Please see website at end of this message for details.] Below is the announcement "for the 28th annual competition for the Philip Taft Award for the book determined to be the most outstanding contribution to labor history," which I've just received via e-mail -- Arieh Lebowitz [Please forward this as appropriate.] The competition is open to any book (or books) published in 2004 relating to the history of United States labor and carries with it an award of $1,000. I invite your nomination of any and every eligible book for consideration. The prize committee defines "labor history" in a broad sense to include the history of workers (free and unfree, organized and unorganized), their institutions, and their workplaces, as well as scholarship that explores the ways in which broader historical trends have shaped working-class life, including but not limited to: immigration, slavery, community, the state, race, gender, and ethnicity. Below are the names and mailing address of Award Committee members. A copy of each nominated book should be sent directly to each member of the Award Committee at the address listed. I encourage you to make your nomination(s) at your earliest convenience, but not later than MAY 1, 2005. For further information, including guidelines and a list of all previous prize winners, go to the web address provided below. The co-winners of the 2004 Taft Award were Frank Tobias Higbie, Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers & Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930 (University of Illinois Press) and Robert Rodgers Korstad, Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers & the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South (University of North Carolina Press). Sincerely, Jefferson Cowie, Committee Chair 269 Ives Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853-3901 Nancy Gabin, Associate Professor Purdue University De! partment of History 672 Oval Drive West Lafayette, IN 47907-2087 Joseph McCartin, Associate Professor Georgetown University Department of History 3700 'O' Street, NW Washington, DC 20057-1035 Kim Phillips, Associate Professor William and Mary Department of History James Blair Hall 342 Williamsburg, VA 23187 Stephen Pitti, Associate Professor Yale University American Studies Program Box 207186 New Haven, CT 06520 Visit the website at <http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/special_taftaward.html>http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/special_taftaward.html Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
