Rosemary Feurer
LaborOnline

Talking for Justice! Maria Mareno/Migrant Women’s Activism #LAWCHA19

Ed: This is one of a series of conference notes from the recent LAWCHA conference. If you have reflections from one of the

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LaborOnline

“Oilcan” Ed Sadlowski, 1938-2018: Midwestern Grit

Ed Sadlowski passed away yesterday. His life is a testament to the grit of the leftwing Midwestern union militants. His roots in unionism

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Labor History

Rethinking the American Labor Movement with Liz Faue

Liz Faue’s new book, Rethinking the American Labor Movement, is our field’s newest attempt to reinterpret U.S. Labor History. I asked her a

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2017 Seattle Live Blog

Ludlow: Greek Americans in the Colorado Coal War

Saturday’s session on the Documentary Ludlow: Greek Americans in the Colorado Coal War offered a new transnational perspective on a well-known topic. We

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2017 Seattle Live Blog

Industrial Nostalgia and Heritage Preservation

Friday’s session on Industrial Nostalgia and Heritage Preservation alerted us to the way that industrial decline has become the basis for historical interpretations.

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2017 Seattle Live Blog

A strike and an uprising [in Texas]

I was very impressed with Friday’s fine cut screening of session B.7 “A strike and an uprising [in Texas]”: an experimental telling of

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Action Alerts LaborOnline

Kennesaw State University faculty need your support

https://www.gopetition.com/petitions/georgia-board-of-regents-initiate-a-national-search-for-the-president-of-kennesaw-state-university.html Rosemary Feurerwww.laborhistorylinks.org

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Labor History

Historic Levels of Inequality

The pundits always seem to miss the politics of capitalism in their effort to explain inequality. It looks like a new book by

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Labor History Teaching Blog

Socialism in current K-12 textbooks: invisible & dismissed

For years now I’ve been showing students and friends the polls that show an increasingly favorable view of socialism especially among low income,

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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. Rosemary

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