Nancy Woloch

Nancy Woloch (born 1940)[1] is an American historian. Her book A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s-1990s won the 2016 Philip Taft Labor History Book Award[2] and the William G. Bowen Award for the Outstanding Book on Labor and Public Policy.[3]

Woloch is an adjunct professor at Barnard College and Columbia University, where she specialises in women's history and the history of education.[4][5]

Woloch has a BA from Wellesley College, an MA from Columbia University and a PhD from Indiana University.[4]

In 2016 Time chose Woloch as one of 25 historians asked to nominate a "Moment that changed America", and she contributed "FDR Signs the Fair Labor Standards Act (June 25, 1938)".[6]

Selected publications

  • A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s-1990s (2015, Princeton UP, ISBN 9780691002590)
  • Women and the American Experience (Knopf, 1984; 5th ed. McGaw Hill, 2011 ISBN 9780073385570)
  • The American Century: A History of the United States Since the 1890s, with Walter La Feber and Richard Polenberg (7th ed., 2013, ISBN 9780765634832)
  • Early American Women: A Documentary History, 1600-1900 (2nd ed., 1997, ISBN 9780070715332)
  • Muller v. Oregon: A Brief History with Documents (1996, Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, ISBN 9780312085865)

References

  1. ↑ "Woloch, Nancy 1940-". Worldcat identities. Worldcat. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  2. ↑ "Award Recipients 2016". Philip Taft Labor History Book Award. ILR School, Cornell University. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  3. ↑ "The William G. Bowen Award for the Outstanding Book on Labor and Public Policy". Industrial Relations Section. Princeton University. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  4. 1 2 "Nancy Woloch". History Department. Barnard College. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  5. ↑ "Nancy Woloch". Department of History. Columbia University. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  6. ↑ "25 Moments that changed America". Time. 30 June 2016. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  • Liese, Debra (5 May 2015). "An interview with Nancy Woloch, author of A Class by Herself". Princeton UP.
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