Henry Kraus

Henry Kraus (1906, in Knoxville, Tennessee - January 27, 1995 in Paris) was a labor historian, and European art historian.^[1]

He graduated from the University of Chicago and Western Reserve University with a master's degree in 1928. He was an organizer of the Flint Sit-Down Strike,^[2] and edited The Flint Auto Worker.^[3] Sol Dollinger was critical of his account of the strike.^[4]

He married Dorothy Kraus, who helped organize the UAW Women's Auxiliary.^[5] He was the first editor of the United Automobile Workers' newspaper, The United Auto Worker. He moved to Paris, and worked as a European correspondent for World Wide Medical News Service. His papers are at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University.^[6][7]

Awards

• 1984 MacArthur Fellows Program

Archival Collections

The Henry Kraus Papers at the Walter P. Reuther Library date from 1926-1960. His papers reflect his attempts to organize auto workers and the early history of the United Automobile Workers from 1935-1941. Particularly well-documented in the collection are the Flint sit-down strike and factionalism within the UAW.

Works

• Heroes of Unwritten Story, University of Illinois Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-252-06397-8
• The Many and the Few, University of Illinois Press, 1947, ISBN 978-0-252-01199-3
• The Living Theater of Medieval Art, Indiana University Press, 1967 (reprint University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972, ISBN 978-0-8122-1056-9)
• Hidden World of Misericords, Authors Dorothy Kraus, Henry Kraus, Joseph, 1976, ISBN 978-0-7181-1485-5
• Gothic Stalls of Spain, Authors Dorothy Kraus, Henry Kraus, Routledge, 1986, ISBN 978-0-7102-0294-9
• Gold Was the Mortar: The Economics of Cathedral Building. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979, ISBN 978-0-7100-8728-7

References

1. "Henry Kraus, Labor Historian And Writer on European Art, 89", The New York Times, LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, February 1, 1995
2. http://www.historicalvoices.org/flint/strike.php
3. http://www.the-spark.net/o_flintsit.html
4. http://www.solidarity-us.org/current/node/2405
5. http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/node/3519
6. http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/node/1256
7. http://www.umflint.edu/library/archives/labor.htm

External links

• "Kraus", University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project