Alina R. Méndez Wins 2019 Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation

We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2019 LAWCHA (Labor and Working Class History Association) Gutman Prize!

Congratulations to Alina R. Méndez, whose dissertation titled “Cheap for Whom? Migration, Farm Labor, and Social Reproduction in the Imperial Valley-Mexicali Borderlands, 1942-1969” will be published in the Working Class in American History Series at the University of Illinois Press.

LAWCHA encourages the study of working people, their lives, workplaces, communities, organizations, cultures, activism, and societal contexts. It aims to promote a diverse and cross-cultural understanding of labor and working-class history. And it encourages innovative, theoretically-informed and interdisciplinary approaches.

The dissertation prize is named in honor of the late Herbert G. Gutman, a pioneering labor historian and a founder of the University of Illinois Press’s Working Class in American History Series. LAWCHA hopes that the spirit of Gutman’s inquiry into the many facets of labor and working-class history will live on through this prize.

Congratulations Alina! We look forward to publishing your book. 19

Other recent winners of the Gutman Prize include:


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