Vera Shlakman

Vera Shlakman
Born(1909-07-15)July 15, 1909
Montreal
DiedNovember 5, 2017(2017-11-05) (aged 108)
New York City
Occupation(s)Economist, professor
Years active1935–1978
Known forFiring by Queens College for alleged Communist membership
TitleProfessor Emerita, Columbia University School of Social Work
Academic background
EducationMcGill University
Alma materColumbia University
ThesisAn Analysis of Female Factory Workers in 19th-Century Chicopee, Massachusetts (circa 1935)
Academic work
DisciplineEconomics
Sub-disciplineLabor
Notable worksEconomic History of a Factory Town (1935) (1969)

Vera Shlakman (July 15, 1909 – November 5, 2017) was a 20th-century American professor of Economics and Marxism and author of a 1935 book on women factory workers. She was best known in 1952 for her firing by Queens College for refusing to testify to the McCarran Committee whether she was a card-carrying Communist, as well as for apology and restitution she received in 1982.[1][2]

  1. ^ Roberts, Sam (27 November 2017). "Vera Shlakman, Professor Fired During Red Scare, Dies at 108". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  2. ^ Heins, Marjorie (2013). Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist Purge. New York University Press. pp. 1–2 (bio, SISS), 5–6, 10–12, 133–147 (leftist, SISS, firing, 903), 152, 156–157, 232–237, 305 (fn 32), 308 (fn 53). ISBN 9780814790519. Retrieved 28 November 2017.