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

UALE Conference 2015, Local to Global: Working in a Changing World

Deadline: December 19, 2014. The United Association for Labor Education (UALE) invites labor educators, community organizers, organizers based in worker centers, and others committed

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Global Affairs Articles Labor History LaborOnline

The Days of Action: The Character of Class Struggle in 1990s Ontario

Illustrated by Orion Keresztesi, written by Doug Nesbitt and Sean Carleton, and augmented by an introduction by David Camfield, The Days of Action

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Teaching Blog

Growing Apart by Colin Gordon: Great Teaching Resource

Growing Apart is one of the most valuable tools for teaching about labor and inequality that I have seen in recent years. It’s

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Opportunity

Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations Dean Opening

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, invites nominations and applications for the position of Dean of the School of Management and Labor

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LAWCHA People

James Green: Labor Festival Talk, Upcoming Book, and PBS Series

James Green, a past president of LAWCHA, delivered the keynote address at this year’s Mother Jones Festival in Cork, Ireland, a four-day community-organized

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Call for Proposals LAWCHA

Herbert G. Gutman Dissertation Prize, Submissions Due January 3rd, 2015

The Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) is pleased to announce this year’s Herbert Gutman Dissertation Prize, established with the cooperation with

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Call for Proposals

LERA 67th Annual Meeting, May 28-31, 2015, Pittsburgh, PA

The LERA Program Committee has issued a call for session and paper proposals for stimulating, creative, and controversial symposia related to this theme

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Labor History

West Virginia Mine Wars Museum Open House, November 8, 12pm-4pm

A year ago, community leaders, citizen archaeologists, historians, labor leaders and other volunteers who care about the history in our hills came together

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OpEd

John McNay, “People’s Veto of a Union-Busting Law Holds Lessons,” Portside

The people’s veto of SB 5 was a triumph of organization, and of labor’s ability to tell its story to ordinary people. I

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Opportunity

Career Instructor Needed at the Labor Education and Research Center (University of Oregon)

The Labor Education and Research Center (LERC) at the University of Oregon invites applications for a dynamic, committed labor educator to join our

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