page_title: Vera Shlakman
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Vera Shlakman / Background
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Вера Засулич (1849 — 1919)Фотография Веры Засулич
context_page_description: Vera Shlakman was a 20th-century American professor of Economics and Marxism and author of a 1935 book on women factory workers. She was best known in 1952 for her firing by Queens College for refusing to testify to the McCarran Committee whether she was a card-carrying Communist, as well as for apology and restitution she received in 1982.
context_section_description: Vera Shlakman was born on July 15, 1909, in Montreal, Canada. Her parents, Louis Shlakman (tailor, garment foreman) and Lena Hendler, were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. They named their children for revolutionary heroes: Vera for Vera Zasulich, Eleanora for Karl Marx's daughter Eleanor Marx, and Victor for Victor Hugo. Anarchist Emma Goldman was a family friend.
  In 1930, she received bachelor's degree from McGill University, followed by an MA in economics. She received a doctorate in economics at Columbia University. Her doctoral dissertation analyzed women factory workers in the 1800s in Chicopee, Massachusetts.
caption: Vera Zasulich, Shlakman's namesake
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