Nancy Woloch (born 1940)[1] is an American historian.
Her book A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s–1990s won the 2016 Philip Taft Labor History Book Award[2] and the William G. Bowen Award for the Outstanding Book on Labor and Public Policy.
[3] Woloch is an adjunct professor at Barnard College and Columbia University, where she specializes in women's history and the history of education.
[4][5] Woloch has a BA from Wellesley College, an MA from Columbia University and a PhD from Indiana University.
[4] In 2016 Time chose Woloch as one of 25 historians asked to nominate a "Moment that changed America", and she contributed "FDR Signs the Fair Labor Standards Act (June 25, 1938)".