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Jennifer Klein is the Bradford Durfee Professor of History at Yale University’s Department of History. Her research focuses on 20th century US history, labor history, urban history, and political economy, with a particular emphasis on the welfare state and labor policy. She holds a B.A. from Barnard College and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Klein has held a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation fellowship in Health Policy and is a 2022-23 Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.
Her notable works include Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State (Oxford, 2012) and For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America’s Public-Private Welfare State (Princeton, 2003), both award-winning books. Her current research explores the economic geography of waste and marginalization in southeastern Louisiana since the 1790s.
Klein has received the 2014 Hans Sigrist Prize for her work on “Women and Precarity: Historical Perspectives.” Her research bridges labor politics, public policy, and social movements, with articles in journals such as Journal of Policy History and Politics and Society. She also contributes to public discourse through op-eds in The New York Times, The Nation, and Washington Post.
As an educator, Klein teaches courses on labor history, political economy, urban history, and contemporary America. She advises prize-winning dissertations in labor history, policy, and welfare state studies. Klein serves on the board of International Labor and Working Class History and edited a special issue on privatization’s global impacts.
