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 other books and essays. She is working on The Illinois Mine Wars, 1860-1940 and a new biography of Mary Harris "Mother" Jones.
Call for Proposals

Journal of Policy History (Deadline: December 4, 2015)

The Institute for Political History, the Journal of Policy History, and the Peabody College of Vanderbilt University are hosting the ninth biennial Conference

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Labor History

Baltimore Steel Stories

This is the first video for the Baltimore Steel Stories Project out of Towson University’s Anthropology Department. About half of the material used

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Events

Labor Research & Action Network (LRAN) Annual Conference

June 15 – June 16, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. The Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) is a dynamic collaborative effort to connect

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LAWCHA People

LAWCHA Award Winners, 2015

Philip Taft Labor History Book Award for the best book in American labor and working-class history (awarded jointly by Cornell University ILR School).

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LAWCHA

Conference hashtags, #fightinginequality & #fi15

Planning on attending our conference next week? Want to live Tweet a panel, join a discussion, or meet up with others? Use our

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Issues of Labor

Labor 12.1-2 (May, 2015)

In This Issue Guest Editors’ Introduction Susan Levine and Steve Striffler, “From Field to Table in Labor History” This special issue of Labor

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Issues of Labor

Labor 11.4 (Winter, 2014)

In This Issue Articles Jarod Roll, “Sympathy for the Devil: The Notorious Career of Missouri’s Strikebreaking Metal Miners, 1896–1910” Between 1896 and 1910,

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Action Alerts

Student Hunger Strike at Tufts University

Yesterday afternoon, students at Tufts University began a hunger strike in protest of the impending firing of 35 janitors by the Tufts administration.

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Labor History People

Suellen Hoy wins 2014 Harry E. Pratt Award

We are pleased to pass along that LAWCHA member Suellen Hoy has won 2014’s Harry E. Pratt Award for the best article in

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LaborOnline

Workers Memorial Day and Earth Day: Links in a Chain

The waning days of April have a little recognized convergence, inviting us to think about connections between workers issues and environmental concerns.

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