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.
Call for Proposals Labor History New Book Interviews

Reviving Southern Labor History: Call for Contributors for New Book on Southern Labor History

Since the mid-1970s only a handful of books on southern labor history have been published. As Alan Draper wrote nearly twenty years ago,

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Call for Proposals LAWCHA

LAWCHA Seeking LaborOnline Contributors: Anyone Can Contribute

LAWCHA invites students, activists, scholars, educators, and everyone between to contribute to the ongoing conversation at LaborOnline. We consider pieces of any length

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Call for Proposals

Deadline Extended: Social Justice for a Global Working Class: MLWCH Colloquium

The upcoming MLWCH conference at Purdue has extended its CFP deadline to March 20. Rosemary FeurerRosemary Feurer is Professor of History at Northern

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Call for Proposals

LRAN 2016 Call for Proposals: Due March 14

LAWCHA invites you to submit a proposal for our annual Labor Research Action Network (LRAN) conference, which will be held June 24th-25th in

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LAWCHA People

LAWCHA Election Results

The Elections Committee has reported the results of the annual election to the Executive Committee, and we are very pleased to announce the

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OpEd

Daniel Katz, “The Key to Bernie Sanders’s Appeal Isn’t Socialism. It’s Yiddish Socialism.” Forward (February 14, 2016)

In New York and elsewhere, Yiddish Socialists in the early 20th century founded and invigorated fraternal societies, newspapers, schools, athletic leagues, summer camps,

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Labor History

The Archivist’s Nook: Introduction to American Catholic Archives

Before the 1960s, almost no dioceses had more than part-time archivists, only a few Catholic colleges and universities devoted much attention or resources

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Events Labor History LAWCHA

Join us at the OAH: Love & Solidarity, James Lawson and Nonviolence in the Search for Workers’ Rights

Join LAWCHA for a film showing (of Love & Solidarity) and discussion at the Organization of American Historians in Providence, Rhode Island, 9am

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Call for Proposals New Book Interviews

New Book Series: Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and Social Identity

Cambridge University Press is pleased to announce the formation of a new book series entitled Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and Social

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Issues of Labor

Labor 12.4 (December, 2015)

In This Issue Editors’ Introduction The Common Verse Patrick Lawrence O’Keefe, “Last-Day Vendor“ LAWCHA Watch Talitha L. LeFlouria, “Membership Matters: LAWCHA’s New System

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