Lewis L. Lorwin

Lewis Levine Lorwin ( December 4, 1883 , † June 6, 1970 ) was an American economist and social scientist of Russian-Jewish origin.

The brother of the composer Mischa Levitzki received his doctorate from Columbia University in 1912 . He then taught at Columbia and at the University of Montana , where he was professor of economics from 1916 to 1919. This is where his book Taxation of Mines in Montana was written . He was later Associate Editor of New York World and Russia Correspondent for the Chicago Daily News and Professor at Beloit College . In 1924 he published a book on the history of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union under the title The Woman's Garment Workers . Further writings on economic history and the history of the labor movement followed.

Fonts

• Economic Consequences of the Second World War
• The American Federation of Labor: History, Policies, and Prospects
• The International Labor Movement: History, Policies, Outlook
• Labor and Internationalism

literature

• Alberta Lawrence: Who's who Among North American Authors .: Volume 6. Golden Syndicate Publishing Company, Los Angeles, Calif., 1935, p. 624.

swell

• Jacob Rader Marcus: "United States Jewry, 1776-1985" , Wayne State University Press, 1989, ISBN 9780814321867 , p. 308
• Good Reads - Lewis L. Lorwin

• Lewis L. Lorwin in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Lewis L. Lorwin on the Prabook.org website