Henry Kraus
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Henry Kraus (1906 Knoxville, Tennessee - January 27, 1995 Paris) was a labor historian, and European art historian.[1]
He graduated from the University of Chicago and Western Reserve University with a master's degree in 1928. He was an organizer of the Flint Sit-Down Strike,[2] and edited The Flint Auto Worker.[3] Sol Dollinger was critical of his account of the strike.[4]
He married Dorothy Kraus, who helped organize the UAW Women's Auxiliary.[5] He was the first editor of the United Automobile Workers' newspaper, The United Auto Worker. He moved to Paris, and worked as a European correspondent for World Wide Medical News Service. His papers are at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University.[6][7]
Awards
Works
- Heroes of Unwritten Story, University of Illinois Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-252-06397-8
- The Many and the Few, University of Illinois Press, 1947, ISBN 978-0-252-01199-3
- The Living Theater of Medieval Art, Indiana University Press, 1967 (reprint University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972, ISBN 978-0-8122-1056-9)
- Hidden World of Misericords, Authors Dorothy Kraus, Henry Kraus, Joseph, 1976, ISBN 978-0-7181-1485-5
- Gothic Stalls of Spain, Authors Dorothy Kraus, Henry Kraus, Routledge, 1986, ISBN 978-0-7102-0294-9
- Gold Was the Mortar: The Economics of Cathedral Building. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979, ISBN 978-0-7100-8728-7
References
- ↑ "Henry Kraus, Labor Historian And Writer on European Art, 89", The New York Times, LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, February 1, 1995
- ↑ http://www.historicalvoices.org/flint/strike.php
- ↑ http://www.the-spark.net/o_flintsit.html
- ↑ http://www.solidarity-us.org/current/node/2405
- ↑ http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/node/3519
- ↑ http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/node/1256
- ↑ http://www.umflint.edu/library/archives/labor.htm
External links
- "Kraus", University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
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