We Study Work, We Value Justice

DOROTHY SUE COBBLE
PROFESSOR II

Dorothy Sue Cobble, professor of labor studies, history, and women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University, received her Ph.D. in American History from Stanford University in 1986.  She studies the changing nature of work, social movements, and social policy in the U.S. and globally. Her books include the award-winning Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century (Illinois, 1991); Women and Unions: Forging a Partnership (Cornell, 1993); The Other Women’s Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America (Princeton, 2004) which won the 2005 Philip Taft Book Prize for the best book in American labor history in 2004 and other awards; and The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor (Cornell, 2007).

Her essays have appeared in a wide range of journals and in a number of anthologies, including, Service Work: Critical Perspectives (2008); What’s Class Got to Do With It?(2004); Major Problems in the History of American Workers (2002);and Gender, Diversity, and Trade Unions: International Perspectives (2002).  Her research has been funded by the Charles Warren Center for the Study of American History at Harvard University, the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the U. S. Department of Labor, and other sources.  She is currently writing on the international ideas and practices of U.S. labor activists from World War I to the present. She also is working on a book on twentieth-century U.S. social democracy as seen through the lives of Esther and Oliver Peterson. She is a senior editor of the International Labor and Working-Class History journal.

About:

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Education:

Ph.D., Stanford University

Office:

Phone: 732-932-1742

cobble@smlr.rutgers.edu

Website:

www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cobble

Writings from LSER faculty:

Rethinking Unions