Walter Licht

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Nationality American		Name Walter Licht

Born 15 July 1946 (age 78) Brooklyn, New York, United States ( 1946-07-15 ) Institutions University of Pennsylvania Institution University of Pennsylvania Alma mater Harvard University, University of Chicago, Princeton University Fields Labor history, Economic history

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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