Walter Licht

Walter Licht
Born	July 15, 1946 Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Nationality	American
Fields	Labor history, Economic history
Institutions	University of Pennsylvania
Alma mater	Harvard University University of Chicago Princeton University

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)

External links

• Walter Licht