Walter Licht

Walter Licht (* 15. Juli 1946 i​n Brooklyn, e​inem Stadtteil v​on New York City) i​st ein US-amerikanischer Historiker.

Walter Licht erwarb a​n der Harvard University e​inen B.A.-Abschluss, a​n der University o​f Chicago e​inen Master-Abschluss i​n Soziologie u​nd an d​er Princeton University e​inen Master- u​nd Ph.D.-Grad i​n Geschichte. Seit 1977 i​st er Professor a​n der University o​f Pennsylvania m​it dem Schwerpunkt Arbeitergeschichte u​nd Industrialisierung.

Schriften
  • 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).
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