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Rights, Solidarity, Justice YouTube Panels

LAWCHA extends a warm, gracious thanks to Daniel Waingarten and all the folks over at Arete Living Arts for filming select sessions of the 2013 LAWCHA Conference, “Rights, Solidarity, Justice: Working People Organizing, Past & Present.” Below are the three sessions the film crew filmed and edited for us.

Big Ideas: Re-Imagining Labor History

The Chicago Teachers Union Strike: Social Movement Unionism & the Defense of Public Education

From Sweatshop Floor to the Retail Store: Warehouse Workers and the Wal-Mart Strike Wave

Rosemary Feurer
Rosemary Feurer is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950, among others. She is working on The Illinois Mine Wars, 1860-1940 and a new biography of Mary Harris "Mother" Jones.