Henry Kraus Explained

Henry Kraus (November 13, 1905 in Knoxville, Tennessee – January 27, 1995 in Paris)^[1] was an American 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

• 1984 MacArthur Fellows Program

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,
• The Many and the Few, University of Illinois Press, 1947,
• The Living Theater of Medieval Art, Indiana University Press, 1967 (reprint University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972,)
• Hidden World of Misericords, Authors Dorothy Kraus, Henry Kraus, Joseph, 1976,
• Gothic Stalls of Spain, Authors Dorothy Kraus, Henry Kraus, Routledge, 1986,
• Gold Was the Mortar: The Economics of Cathedral Building. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979,

External links

• "Kraus", University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project

Notes and References

1. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JGSZ-2M9 Social Security Death Index: Henry Kraus
2. https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/01/obituaries/henry-kraus-labor-historian-and-writer-on-european-art-89.html?pagewanted=1 "Henry Kraus, Labor Historian And Writer on European Art, 89"
3. Web site: Flint Sit-Down Strike - the Strike.
4. Web site: The Flint Sit Down: The Strike Which Broke the Bosses' Intransigence.
5. Web site: Flint and the Rewriting of History | Solidarity . 2010-03-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110320114347/http://www.solidarity-us.org/current/node/2405 . 2011-03-20 . dead .
6. Web site: Walter P. Reuther Library Dorothy Kraus Papers.
7. Web site: Walter P. Reuther Library Henry Kraus Papers.
8. Web site: Labor History Project . 2010-03-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100408022719/http://www.umflint.edu/library/archives/labor.htm . 2010-04-08 . dead .