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Revision as of 05:18, 2 September 2016

Walter Licht
Born (1946-07-15) July 15, 1946 (age 78)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University
University of Chicago
Princeton University
Scientific career
FieldsLabor history, Economic history
InstitutionsUniversity of Pennsylvania

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)