Robert H. "Bob" Zieger (August 2, 1938 – March 6, 2013) was a labor historian whose research focused on the labor history of the United States.
Biography
Early years
Robert H. Zieger was born August 2, 1938, in Englewood, New Jersey to John and Grace (Harman) Zieger. He married Gay Pitman in 1962. They had one child, Robert, and a granddaughter Persephone Zieger.
In 1986, Zieger was appointed professor of history at the University of Florida. He was named Distinguished Professor of History in 1998.
Zieger’s teaching style was very student oriented. He used a very detailed website that allows people taking his class to fully understand every single day of lecture. Also, he was adamant about making sure his undergraduates come prepared to discuss the material to be covered in class. This has twofold benefit, as it not only ensures preparation, but also allows students to boost their grade with frequent quizzes covering the reading material.[1]
In 1985, Zieger's Rebuilding the Pulp and Paper Workers' Union, 1933–1941 was a Taft Prize co-winner with Paul Avrich's The Haymarket Tragedy.ISBN978-0-691-00600-0
Zieger won the Taft Prize again in 1995 for his 1994 book, The CIO, 1935–1955.
Zieger had one child, who he named after himself. A Michigan native, Robert attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and after a foray into social work, received his M.A.T. from Duke University. In the course of his career, he has taught a range of social studies courses in the United States, Pakistan, Myanmar, Indonesia, the D.R. Congo, and Bolivia. Robert Zieger currently teaches Social Studies and Psychology at Dunecrest American School, Dubai.
Works
Robin Hood in the Silk City: The I.W.W. and the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913. Newark, N.J.: New Jersey Historical Society, 1966.
Republicans and Labor, 1919–1929. Lexington, Ky.: University of Kentucky Press, 1969. online
Madison's Battery Workers, 1934–1952: A History of Federal Labor Union 19587. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 1977. online
Rebuilding the Pulp and Paper Workers' Union, 1933–1941. Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 1985. online
John L. Lewis: Labor Leader. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1988. online
Organized Labor in the Twentieth-Century South. Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 1991. online
Labor on the March. With Edward Levinson. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 1995
Southern Labor in Transition, 1940–1995. Robert H. Zieger, ed. Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 1997.
The CIO, 1935–1955 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1997) online[2]
America's Great War: World War 1 and the American Experience. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2000. online
American Workers, American Unions: The Twentieth Century. With Gilbert J. Gail. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 3rd edition 2002. online
For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 2007.
