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Jennifer Klein (academic)

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Jennifer Klein is an American professor of 20th century U.S. history at Yale University.[3] Klein's work specializes in social history and the history of healthcare provision.[4][5][6][7]

Born
Miami, Florida
TitleBradford Durfee Professor of History, Yale University
SpouseJames Berger
EducationPh.D.
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Jennifer Klein
Born
Miami, Florida
TitleBradford Durfee Professor of History, Yale University
SpouseJames Berger
Academic background
EducationPh.D.
Alma materBarnard College, University of Virginia
ThesisManaging security: The business of American social policy, 1910s-1960[1]
Nelson Lichtenstein[2]
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-discipline
Labor history, Women's history
InstitutionsYale University
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She graduated from Barnard College,[8] and from the University of Virginia. She is a professor at Yale University.[9] She is Senior Editor of International Labor and Working Class History.[10]

Awards and honors

Klein has won an Ellis W. Hawley Prize, the Hans Sigrist Prize,[11] and the Sara A. Whaley prize.

Works

  • Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State. Oxford University Press. 1 July 2015. ISBN 978-0-19-937858-6.
  • Jennifer Klein (2 January 2010). For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State. Princeton University Press. pp. 281–. ISBN 978-1-4008-3566-9.

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