Robert David Parmet (Stylized as Robert D. Parmet; born December 11, 1938)^[1] is an American writer and teacher. He is a professor of history atYork College, City University of New York.^[2]

Parmet taught atKean University up until 1967 in the Social Science Department,^[3] and is currently employed atCUNY York and has worked there since its opening in 1967.^[4] He has written 7 books on American social history from 1961 to 2012. Additionally he has written for many papers such as theHistory News Network,^[5]United Press International,^[6] and International Labor and Working-Class History under theCambridge University Press.^[7]

He has written extensively about labor and unions in 20th-century America, including those of women,^[8] immigrants,^[9] and ofDavid Dubinsky.^[10] In 1968, he received a $2,000 grant ($18,234.20 USD in 2024) to write a biography on American senatorChauncey Depew.^[11] It was published in 1970.^[12]

Parmet was born in New York City in 1938. He is the son of Isaac Parmet and Fannie (née Scharf)^[13] and is the brother of American historianHerbert Parmet.^[14]

He attended Graduate School atColumbia University while teaching at theCity College of New York.^[6] He was married to Joan Levy on June 8, 1963.^[15] She received her Masters in History fromColumbia University in 1965.^[16] They have a son, Andrew.^[17]

• Parmet, Robert D. (1961).Cleveland, Blaine, and New York's Irish in the Election of 1884.
• Patton, Charlotte G.; O'Sullivan, John J.; Parker, K. L.; Payne, Nicholas S.; Parmet, Robert D.; Paige, Susan M. (1961).Inquisitional Jurisdiction Over Magic in Relation to the Commencement of the Witchcraft Delusion in Fifteenth-century Europe.
• Parmet, Robert D. (1966).The Know-Nothings in Connecticut. Columbia University.
• Leonard, Ira M.; Parmet, Robert D. (1971).American Nativism, Eighteen Thirty to Eighteen Sixty. Krieger Publishing Company.ISBN 978-0-88275-901-2.
• Parmet, Robert D. (1987).Labor and Immigration in Industrial America. R.E. Krieger Publishing Company.ISBN 978-0-89874-968-7.
• Parmet, Robert D. (2011-11-24).Town and Gown: The Fight for Social Justice, Urban Rebirth, and Higher Education. Lexington Books.ISBN 978-1-61147-473-2.
• Parmet, Robert D. (2012).The Master of Seventh Avenue: David Dubinsky and the American Labor Movement. NYU Press.ISBN 978-0-8147-7036-8.

• Parmet, Robert D. (1982)."Labor and Immigration in Industrial America. (Immigrant Heritage of America Series.)".The American Historical Review.87 (4).doi:10.1086/ahr/87.4.1177.ISSN 1937-5239.
• Parmet, Robert D.; Papanikolas, Zeese (1983)."Buried Unsung: Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre".The Journal of American History.70 (1): 176.doi:10.2307/1890597.
• Parmet, Robert D. (1985)."Capeci, Dominic J., Jr. Race Relations in Wartime Detroit: The Sojourner Truth Housing Controversy of 1942".Urban History Review.14 (1):86–87.doi:10.7202/1017898ar.ISSN 0703-0428.
• Parmet, Robert D. (1988)."Fishman, Robert. Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia. Gale, Dennis E. Washington, D.C.: Inner-City Revitalization and Minority Suburbanization".Urban History Review.17 (2):136–137.doi:10.7202/1017672ar.ISSN 0703-0428.
• Parmet, Robert D.; Marks, Gary (1990)."Unions in Politics: Britain, Germany, and the United States in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries".The Journal of American History.77 (2): 691.doi:10.2307/2079272.
• Parmet, Robert D. (1999)."Peter Kwong, Forbidden Workers: Illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor".International Labor and Working-Class History.56:175–177.doi:10.1017/S0147547999452883.

• Robert Parmet at CUNY York