Walter Licht
| Walter Licht | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 15, 1946 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Labor history, Economic history |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University University of Chicago Princeton University |
Walter Licht (born July 15, 1946) is an American historian.
Walter Licht gained his Bachelor's degree at Harvard University, a Master's degree in Sociology at the University of Chicago and a master's degree and Ph.D in History at Princeton University.
He is a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania since 1977, focusing on labor history and industrialization.
Works
- Working For The Railroad: The Organization of Work in the Nineteenth Century (Princeton, 1983)
- Getting Work: Philadelphia, 1840–1950 (Cambridge, MA, 1992)
- Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century (Baltimore, 1995)
- The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century (Ithaca, NY, 2005)
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