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.
OpEd

John T. McNay, “12 moments in Cincy labor history”

The Cincinnati labor community is nearly as old as the city itself and very much a part of the fabric that makes up

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OpEd

Anna Lane Windham, “Making a living while black” (Baltimore Sun, 8/30/2014)

Though we’ve narrowed the racial divide since the days of segregation, the economic divide between whites and blacks has been remarkably persistent for

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Articles

Colin Gordon, A Map To The Roots Of Ferguson’s Civic Unrest, on NPR

http://www.npr.org/2014/08/26/343484238/a-map-to-the-roots-of-fergusons-civic-unrest

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Issues of Labor

Labor 11.3 (Fall, 2014)

In This Issue The Common Verse Hugh Martin, “Iraq War, 2004” LAWCHA Watch James N. Gregory, “Advancing the Ivory-Collar/Blue-Collar Partnership” Up for Debate

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Issues of Labor

Labor 11.2 (Summer, 2014)

In This Issue Articles Kristoffer Smemo, “A “New Dealized” Grand Old Party: Labor and the Emergence of Liberal Republicanism in Minneapolis, 1937 –

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Issues of Labor

Labor 11.1 (Spring, 2014)

In This Issue The Common Verse Carl Wade Thompson, “Off Shore“ LAWCHA Watch Nancy MacLean, “Connecting Members and Communities“ Contemporary Affairs Marcel van

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Issues of Labor

Labor 10.4 (Winter, 2013)

In This Issue The Common Verse Phillip Bannowsky, “The Yard“ LAWCHA Watch Shelton Stromquist, “President’s Perspective: Looking Forward from New York“ Articles Christopher

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OpEd

Eladio Bobadilla, “Industrial Commission losses will hurt workers”

While the North Carolina General Assembly’s more obvious attacks on our state’s working families are by now well-known (and felt), the legislature’s leaders

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Call for Proposals

Using History to Make Slavery History, (CFP Deadline: October 15)

This antislavery conference, building on its predecessor sponsored by Historians Against Slavery in 2013, is designed to facilitate dialogue, scholarship, and action in

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Call for Proposals

SLSA Accepting Essay Submissions for the Robert H. Zieger Prize

The Southern Labor Studies Association (SLSA) announces the Robert H. Zieger Prize for the best essay in Southern Labor Studies. This prize has

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