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Nationality
  
American


Name
  
Walter Licht

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Born
  
15 July 1946 (age 77) 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)

    • References

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