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Jefferson Cowie is a historian and writer. His areas of expertise include the history of labor and social class in the United States as well as interests in international and comparative history. He is currently Professor of History at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and was the first House Professor-Dean of William Keeton House at Cornell (2008-2012).

Education Cowie was born in 1963 in Hudson, New York and grew up in in Crystal Lake, Illinois, where he attended Crystal Lake Central High School. He attended the University of California, Berekeley for a BA in History (1987) and received his PhD in history from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1997).

Academic Cowie's first book, Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor (Cornell University Press, 1999/The New Press, 2001) won the 2000 Taft Prize for best book in labor history. His most recent book, Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (The New Press, 2010) was very well received, garnering, among others, the Francis Parkman Prize for the Best Book in American History, the Merle Curti Award fromt the Organization of American Historians for the best book in social and intellectual history, the best book award from the journal Labor History, and was a finalist for the Anthony Lukas Prize for nonfiction. In addition to his edited volumes and scholarly articles, Cowie has written for the New York Times, American Prospect, Dissent, Democracy, New Labor Forum, and The New Republic.

Selected Publications Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization (co-edited with Joseph Heathcott) Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class