On May 17, it was announced that Collision Course won the Richard A. Lester Award for Outstanding Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics published in 2011. The award is presented by the faculty of the Princeton University Industrial Relations Section to "the book making the most original and
important contribution toward understanding the problems of industrial
relations, labor market policies, and the evolution of labor markets." A full explanation of the award can be found here.
The best thing about the award is that it might induce economists and industrial relations scholars to read the book. It seems to me that we historians don't tend to read enough work in those fields, and in turn economists (the IRS faculty excepted!) don't tend to read enough history. So my thanks to the Princeton IRS faculty for promoting this cross-over.
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