Rosemary Feurer
Rosemary Feurer

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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.
LaborOnline LAWCHA New Book Interviews

Alan Singer on his new book, Class-Conscious Coal Miners

What originally brought you to this project, and what motivated you to bring the project out in book form now?I am a 1960s

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Labor History Bibliography, 2024

This is my 12th year of creating the annual bibliography, which used to be in the LAWCHA annual newsletter. If you think a

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Issues of Labor LaborOnline

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk: Historical Perspective

The new issue of Labor: Studies in Working Class History is out, and as usual, we are able to release one of the

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Issues of Labor LaborOnline

Listen to Salem Elzway to Understand How Elites Have Used Automation

In a recent issue of Labor, Salem Elzway and Jason Resnikoff published an article that gives all workers insights into this ongoing deployment

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LaborOnline LAWCHA New Book Interviews

James C. Benton on his recent book, Fraying Fabric How Trade Policy and Industrial Decline Transformed America

James C Benton’s 2022 Fraying Fabric: How Trade Policy and Industrial Decline Transformed America (University of Illinois Press, 2022) asks important questions about

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What Would You Like to See in the Journal, Labor?

Register for this zoom event Join Julie Greene, Shennette Garrett-Scott, Jessie Wilkerson, and Vanessa May for a discussion on April 20 at 7

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Events

LAWCHA 2023 Conference Registration: Now Open!

Rosemary Feurer Rosemary Feurer is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950,

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The Most-Read essays of 2022 from Labor: Studies in Working Class History

Duke University Press released the top-read essays of 2022 from LAWCHA’s journal,  Labor: Studies in Working-Class History (volume 19). The articles are freely

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In Memoriam LaborOnline

Staughton Lynd (1929-2022)

Staughton Lynd, one of labor history’s icons, died on November 17. He was an academic and activist when those combinations were reviled as

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Events

LAWCHA 2022 CFP Deadline Extended: October 31

New Deadline for LAWCHA 2023 conference proposals: submissions are open until October 31. Rosemary Feurer Rosemary Feurer is Professor of History at Northern

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