Nelson Lichtenstein

Nelson Lichtenstein
Academic background
EducationPhD
ThesisIndustrial unionism under the no-strike pledge: a study of the CIO during the Second World War (1974)
Academic work
Doctoral studentsJennifer Klein, Meg Jacobs

Nelson Lichtenstein (born November 15, 1944) is an American historian. He is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy. He is a labor historian who has written also about 20th-century American political economy, including the automotive industry and Wal-Mart.