Thavolia Glymph, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and History at Duke, has won the Philip Taft Prize for the best book in labor and working-class history published in 2008.  She is co-winner of the award along with Jana K. Lipman of Tulane University.  Prof. Glymph was a fellow in the FHI's 2002-03 Annual Seminar Race, Justice, and the Politics of Memory.

The Taft prize committee defines "labor history" in a broad sense to include the history of workers (free and unfree, organized and unorganized), their institutions, and their workplaces, as well as the broader historical trends that have shaped working-class life, including but not limited to: immigration, slavery, community, the state, race, gender, and ethnicity. Glymph's Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (Cambridge University Press) reconceptualizes the planter household as a workplace with labor and class as well as gender and race relations. Detailing the day-to-day relations between black and white women and how those relations changed, Glymph offers a telling critique of the limits of such notions as patriarchy, domesticity, and private versus public spheres.  Click here for more information about the award.

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