Henry Kraus

Henry Kraus (November 13, 1905 in Knoxville, Tennessee – January 27, 1995 in Paris)[1] was a labor historian, and European art historian.[2]

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,[3] and edited The Flint Auto Worker.[4] Sol Dollinger was critical of his account of the strike.[5]

He married Dorothy Kraus, who helped organize the UAW Women's Auxiliary.[6] 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.[7][8]

Awards

Archival Collections

The Henry Kraus Papers at the Walter P. Reuther Library date from 1926-1960. His papers reflect his attempts to organize auto workers and the early history of the United Automobile Workers from 1935-1941. Particularly well-documented in the collection are the Flint sit-down strike and factionalism within the UAW.

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
  1. Social Security Death Index: Henry Kraus
  2. "Henry Kraus, Labor Historian And Writer on European Art, 89", The New York Times, LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, February 1, 1995
  3. http://www.historicalvoices.org/flint/strike.php
  4. http://www.the-spark.net/o_flintsit.html
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-03-20. Retrieved 2010-03-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/node/3519
  7. http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/node/1256
  8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-04-08. Retrieved 2010-03-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  • "Kraus", University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
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