Announcing the Recipients of the 2023 Book Awards

Aug. 31, 2024
Book covers: The Injustice of Place and Ours Was the Shining Future

The Industrial Relations Section is pleased to announce that Kathryn Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, and Timothy Nelson have been awarded the 2023 Richard A. Lester Book Award for The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America,  and David Leonhardt has been awarded the 2023 William G. Bowen Book Award for Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream.

Each year the Industrial Relations Section publishes a volume of “Selected References” entitled “Noteworthy Books in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics” consisting of 10-12 books published in the previous year. Charissa Jefferson, Labor Economics Librarian, began the process to determine the 2023 contenders by reviewing and selecting 50 books for consideration in early 2024. Copies were made available to Section members in advance of the annual deliberation meeting, when the list was finalized. 

Selected References is an annotated bibliography series published and distributed by the Industrial Relations Section since 1945.