Since his retirement, Bob has remained active
February, 2012
Since his retirement, Bob has remained active
February, 2012
Department of History, University of Florida, POB 117320, Gainesville, FL 32611 (207 Keene-Flint Hall)
Phone: 352-378-0793; fax: 352-392-6927; e-mail: zieger@ufl.edu
Degrees:
BA, Montclair (N.J.) State College, 1960; MA, University of Wyoming, 1961; PHD, University of Maryland, 1965
Appointments:
Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus
Distinguished Professor of History, University of Florida, 1998-2008
Professor of History, University of Florida, 1986-98
Professor of History, Wayne State University, 1977-86
Associate Professor of History, Kansas State University, 1973-77
Assistant to Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 1964-73
Teaching:
I taught on the college level between 1964 and 2010. I taught a variety of courses, mostly in US History, on every level from freshman to post-Ph.D. At the University of Florida, my two signature courses were History of American Labor and The United States, 1914-1945.
Publications:
Books
Life and Labor in the
New New South: Essays in Southern Labor
History since 1950
Encyclopedia of U.S. Political
History. Vol. 5: Prosperity,
Depression, and War, 1921-1945 (Congressional
Quarterly, 2010). Editor.
For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007). Choice designation as "Outstanding Academic Publication"
American Workers, American Unions, 1920-1985 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986; second edition, 1994). Third edition published 2002 under the title American Workers, American Unions: The Twentieth-Century (Gilbert J. Gall co-author)
America's Great War: World War I and the American Experience
(Rowman and Littlefield, 2000; paperback, 2001). Choice
designation as
"Outstanding Academic Publication"
Southern Labor in Transition (University of Tennessee Press, 1997). Edited by Robert H. Zieger. 360 pp.
The CIO, 1935-1955 (University of North Carolina Press, 1995); winner, 1996, Philip A. Taft Award for best book in labor history, 1995.
Organized Labor in the Twentieth-Century South (Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1991). Edited by Robert H. Zieger.
John L. Lewis: Labor Leader (Boston: Twayne, 1988)
Rebuilding the Pulp and Paper Workers' Union, 1933-1941 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984); co-winner, 1985, of Philip A. Taft Award for best book in labor history, 1984.
Madison's Battery Workers, 1934-1952: A History of Federal Labor Union 19587 (Ithaca: New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, 1977)
Republicans and Labor, 1919-1929 (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1969)
Selected Articles
“'Grudgingly, Unwillingly, Almost Insultingly': Racial
Progress in the Era of the Great War," Journal of Florida Studies (2011)
“The Development of Federal Old-Age Policy in the Era of the Great Depression: Pensions, Policies, and Politics, 1920-1940,” Journal of Aging, Humanities and the Arts 2 (2008): 251-265
"The Evolving Cold War: The Changing Character of the Enemy Within, 1949-1963," American Communist History, 3: 1 (2004): 3-23"'Uncle Sam Wants You. . . To Go Shopping': A Consumer Society Responds to National Crisis, 1957-2001," Canadian Review of American Studies, 34: 1 (2004): 83-103
"The Paradox of Plenty: The Advertising Council and the Post-SputnikCrisis," Advertising and Society Review 4: 1 (2003)
“‘A Venture into Unplowed Fields’: Daniel Powell and CIO Political Action in the Post-War South," in Labor in the Modern South, ed. Glenn T. Eskew (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001)
"The Quest for National Goals, 1957-1981," The Carter Presidency, ed. Gary M. Fink and Hugh Davis Graham (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998), 29-50
"From Primordial Folk to Redundant Workers: Southern Textile Workers and Social Observers, 1920-1990," Southern Labor in Transition, ed. Zieger (1997), 273-94"Leadership and Bureaucracy in the Late CIO," Labor History (Summer 1990)
"George Meany: Labor's Organization Man," in American Labor Leaders, ed. Melvyn Dubofsky and Warren Van Tine (1987)
"The Union Comes to Covington: Virginia Paperworkers Organize, 1934-1952," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (1982)
"Herbert Hoover, the Wage-Earner, and the 'New Economic System,' 1919-1929," Business History Review (Summer 1977).
"The Limits of Militancy: Organizing Paper Workers, 1933-1935," Journal of American History (December 1976)
"Pinchot and Coolidge: The Politics of the 1923 Anthracite Crisis," Journal of American History (December 1965)
Selected essays and reviews
Review essay: "Walmart and the Broken Narrative of U.S. Labor History," Labor History 52: 4 (November 2011): 563-569
Labor History symposium: Robert H. Zieger, For Jobs and Freedom, Labor History 50: 1 (February 2009): 59-83
"How Unions Have Hurt African American Workers" (essay review of Paul Moreno, Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History), Labor History 48:2 (May 2007): 215-21
"Confronting the 'Tough Stuff' in American History," Reviews in American History 31: 3 (September 2003):
"Race and Labor in the Twentieth Century," Reviews in American History 29: 4 (December 2001): 567-72
"Books That Didn't Influence Me," Labor History 40: 2 (1999): 177-88
"The Many Mansions of David Montgomery" (symposium review of David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor), Labor History, Fall, 1989"The Popular Front Rides Again," Political Power and Social Theory, 1983
"Nobody Here but Us Trade Unionists" (review of Harvey Levenstein, Communism, Anticommunism, and the CIO), Reviews in American History, June, 1982
"James Green's World" (review of James Green, The World of the Worker in the Twentieth-Century), Reviews in American History, December, 1981
"Herbert Hoover: A Reinterpretation," American Historical Review, October, 1976
NEH Summer Stipends, 1972, 1982; ACLS research grant, 1982-83; American Philosophical Society grants, 1974, 1980; Wayne State University research grant, 1983; DSR grants, UF, 1987-88, 1993-94; NEH Travel-to-Collections grant, 1989-90; Summer Seminar for College Teachers (director), 1981; Philip A. Taft Award for best book in labor history, 1984 (awarded 1985; co-winner); Norman Wilinsky Graduate Teaching Award, University of Florida, 1987, 2005; Philip A. Taft Award for best book in labor history, 1995 (awarded 1996); FEH grants to support Departmental African-American historians' lecture series, 1989 and 1990; Rockefeller Foundation travel grant, summer, 1994; University of Florida Teaching Recognition Award (TIP), 1994; University of Florida Professional Excellence Award (PEP), 1996; FHC mini-grant for programs connected with the A. Philip Randolph Traveling Exhibit, 1998; North Central Florida Central Labor Council Special Recognition Award, 1998; Department of History John Mahon Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, 1998 (awarded 1999); Anderson Scholar student designee, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003; SSP award, 2002; North Central Florida Central Labor Council Joe Broxton Memorial Award, 2001
International Teaching
London, Summer, 2005, FSU London Program
University of Utrecht, Spring, 2002, visiting faculty (UF exchange)
Cambridge University, Summer, 1998, UF Cambridge Program faculty
advisor
London, Spring, 1995, teaching in Florida State University London
Program
Cambridge University, Summer, 1989, UF Cambridge Program faculty
advisor
Other stuff
Editorial Board, American Communist History, 2003-; advisory board, Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, University of Florida