Nelson Lichtenstein | |
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Academic background | |
Education | PhD |
Thesis | Industrial unionism under the no-strike pledge: a study of the CIO during the Second World War[1] (1974) |
Academic work | |
Doctoral students | Jennifer Klein,[2] Meg Jacobs[3] |
Nelson Lichtenstein (born November 15, 1944) is an American historian. He is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy.[4] He is a labor historian who has written also about 20th-century American political economy, including the automotive industry and Wal-Mart.