Walter Licht

Walter Licht
Born	(1946-07-15) 15 July 1946 Brooklyn, New York, United States
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Harvard University University of Chicago Princeton University
Scientific career
Fields	Labor history, Economic history
Institutions	University of Pennsylvania

Walter Licht (born 15 July 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).

External links

• Walter Licht