![Sven Beckert](http://wp-content/uploads/beckert-pic-150x150.jpg)
Philip Taft Labor History Book Award for the best book in American labor and working-class history (awarded jointly by Cornell University ILR School).
Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History (Knopf)
![Chantal Norrgard](http://wp-content/uploads/71fde1dd7d3f4dc4a9c1c8a850e1d0b6-150x150.jpeg)
David Montgomery Book Award for the best book on a topic in American labor and working-class history (awarded jointly with the Organization of American
Historians).
Chantal Norrgard, Seasons of Change: Labor, Treaty Rights, and Ojibwe Nationhood (University of North Carolina Press)
![Jessica Wilkerson](http://wp-content/uploads/Wilkerson-Jessica-Cropped-560x631-150x150.jpg)
Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in labor and working-class history.
Jessica Wilkerson, “Where Movements Meet: From the War on Poverty to Grassroots Feminism in the Appalachian South” (UNC-Chapel Hill, 2014)
Advisor: Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
![Jacquelyn Dowd Hall](http://wp-content/uploads/photo_small-52.jpeg)
Award for Distinguished Service to Labor and Working-Class History.
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Julia Cherry Spruill Professor Emerita, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
![Ryan Poe](/wp-content/uploads/userphoto/435.thumbnail.png)