Source: ILR School, Cornell University • 1978 –
David M. Katzman for
Seven Days a Week: Women and Domestic Service in Industrializing America • 1979 –
August Meier and
Elliott Rudwick for
Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW • 1980 -
no award made • 1981 –
James A. Gross for
Reshaping of the National Labor Relations Board: A Study in Economics, Politics, and the Law • 1982 – co-winners:
Alice Kessler-Harris for
Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States; and
Howell John Harris for
The Right to Manage: Industrial Relations Policies of American Business in the 1940s • 1983 –
Walter Licht for
Working for the Railroad • 1984 – co-winners:
Paul Avrich for
The Haymarket Tragedy; and
Robert Zieger for ''Rebuilding the Pulp and Paper Workers' Union, 1933–1941'' • 1985 –
Jacqueline Jones for
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present • 1986 –
Alexander Keyssar for
Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts • 1987 –
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall,
James Leloudis,
Robert Korstad,
Mary Murphy,
Christopher B. Daly, and
Lu Ann Jones for
Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World • 1988 –
Alan Derickson for ''Workers' Health, Workers' Democracy: The Western Miners Struggle, 1891–1925'' • 1989 – co-winners:
Joshua Freeman for
In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933–1966; and
Philip Scranton for
Figured Tapestry: Production, Markets and Power in Philadelphia Textiles, 1855–1941 • 1990 –
Lizabeth Cohen for
Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939 • 1991 –
Steve Fraser for
Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor • 1992 –
Douglas Flamming for
Creating the Modern South: Millhands and Managers in Dalton, Georgia, 1884–1984 • 1993 –
Peter Way for
Common Labour: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals, 1780–1860 • 1994 –
Eileen Boris for
Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the U.S. • 1995 –
Robert Zieger for
The CIO, 1935–1955 • 1996 –
Thomas J. Sugrue for
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit • 1997 –
Sanford M. Jacoby for
Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal • 1999 –
Joseph McCartin for ''Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912–1921'' • 2000 –
Jefferson R. Cowie for ''Capital Moves: RCA's 70-Year Quest for Cheap Labor'' • 2001 –
Gunther Peck for
Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880–1930 • 2002 –
Alice Kessler-Harris for
In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th Century America • 2003 –
Nelson Lichtenstein for
State of the Union: A Century of American Labor • 2004 – co-winners:
Frank Tobias Higbie for
Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880–1930; and
Robert Korstad for
Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South • 2005 –
Dorothy Sue Cobble for ''The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America'' • 2006 –
James N. Gregory for
The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America • 2007 –
Nancy MacLean for
Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace • 2008 –
Laurie B. Green for
Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle • 2009 - co-winners:
Thavolia Glymph for
Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household; and
Jana K. Lipman for
Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution • 2010 -
Seth Rockman for
Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore • 2011 -
James D. Schmidt for
Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor • 2012 -
Cindy Hahamovitch for ''No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor'' • 2013 – co-winners:
Matt Garcia for
From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement; and
Kimberley Phillips for
War! What Is It Good For?: Black Freedom Struggles and the U.S. Military from World War II to Iraq • 2014 -
Matthew L. Basso for
Meet Joe Copper: Masculinity and Race on Montana’s World War II Home Front • 2015 -
Sven Beckert for
Empire of Cotton: A Global History (Knopf) • 2016 - co-winners:
Nancy Woloch for
A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s-1990s; and
Talitha L. LeFlouria for
Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South • 2017 -
LaShawn Harris for ''Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy'' • 2018 -
Sarah F. Rose for
No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s-1930s • 2019 - co-winners:
Peter Cole (Historian) for
Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area; and
Joshua Freeman for
Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World • 2020 -
Vincent DiGirolamo for ''Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys.'' • 2021 -
Nate Holdren for
Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era • 2022 - Sonia Hernández for
For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938 (joint recipient) • 2022 - Stephanie Hinnershitz for
Japanese American Incarceration: The Camps and Coerced Labor During World War II (joint recipient) • 2023 - Steven Beda for
Strong Winds and Widow Makers: Workers, Nature, and Environmental Conflict in Pacific Northwest Timber Country • 2024 - co-winners:
Margot Canaday for
Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America; and
Blair L.M. Kelley for
Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class ==See also==