William A. Pelz
Obituary

http://solidarity-us.org/atc/193/p5251/
Date Written:  2018-03-01
Publisher:  Against the Current
Year Published:  2018
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX23302

Obituary for labour history scholar and activist William A Pelz.

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BILL PELZ, A well-known socialist activist and prolific scholar in the field of European and comparative Labor History, died at the age of 66 in Chicago on Sunday, December 10, 2017 following a heart attack. Bill was born into a working-class family on the South Side of Chicago. After graduation from high school he became a bus driver, aspiring to make as much money as his father had as a union machinist, “but later,” he said, “I lowered my expectations and became an academic historian.”