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Professor Dorothy Sue Cobble
Department of Labor and Employment Relations
School of Management and Labor Relations
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick, NJ 08903
email: cobble@rci.rutgers.edu
telephone: 732-932-1742  •  fax: 732-932-8677 

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 Philip Taft Book Prize for the best book in American labor history in 2004; 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, most recently, 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 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. Her current research focuses on the rise and fall of working-class liberalism in the twentieth century U.S.; global initiatives to revalue service work; and the intellectual legacy of pre-New Deal forms of unionism for labor and human rights movements today.

Updated: March 2007