Background
Cooper, Patricia Ann was born on August 29, 1949 in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. Daughter of Byron Nelson and Elizabeth (Doyne) Cooper.
( Patricia A. Cooper charts the course of competition,...)
Patricia A. Cooper charts the course of competition, conflict, and camaraderie among American cigar makers during the two decades that preceded mechanization of their work. In the process, she reconstructs the work culture, traditions, and daily lives of the male cigar makers who were members of the Cigar Makers' International Union of America (CMIU) and of the nonunion women who made cigars under a division of labor called the "team system." But Cooper not only examines the work lives of these men and women, she also analyzes their relationship to each other and to their employers during these critical years of the industry's transition from hand craft to mass production.
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Cooper, Patricia Ann was born on August 29, 1949 in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. Daughter of Byron Nelson and Elizabeth (Doyne) Cooper.
Bachelor, Wittenberg University, 1971. Master of Arts, University Maryland, 1973. Doctor of Philosophy, University Maryland, 1981.
Post-doctoral fellow Smithsonian Institute, Washington, 1982. Historian Service Employees International Union, 1983. Assistant professor of history Drexel University, Philadelphia, 1984-1988, associate professor, 1988-1993, board directors Women's Studies committee, 1988-1993.
Associate professor history and women's studies University Kentucky, Lexington, since 1993, director women's studies program, 1994-1998. Visiting senior lecturer Centre for Study Social History, University Warwick, Coventry, England, 1991, associate professor University Iowa, Iowa City, 1991.
( Patricia A. Cooper charts the course of competition,...)
Board directors University City Arts League, Philadelphia, 1987-1988, Women Against Abuse, Philadelphia, 1992-1993. Member Organization American Historians, American History Association, Pennsylvania History Society, Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region (president, 1983), Oral History Association, Labor and Working Class History Association (board directors since 2000).