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

Peter Rachleff, “The Mall of America, free speech, and the labor movement”

From early childhood to old age, a “rights discourse” dominates Americans’ sense of the world and our place in it. Governments around the

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Call for Proposals

MLWCH CFP, “Resistance and Remembrance,” Final Extension: January 3, 2014

2014 Midwest Labor and Working-Class History (MLWCH) Colloquium. “Resistance and Remembrance: Collective Identities and the Uses of History.” University of Illinois at Chicago,

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Events (Old)

LAWCHA at the AHA: Dinner with Karen Nussbaum

LAWCHA dinner with Karen Nussbaum, Executive Director of Working America, to be held Friday, January 3rd at 7 p.m. at the Café Dupont

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LAWCHA

Thinking of Calumet 1913

My husband keeps expressing a hankering to go up to Calumet, Michigan on Christmas eve to commemorate the 73 people, mostly children, who

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OpEd

Jessican Wilkerson, “Remembering the Mothers Who Fought for Food Assistance”

I recently had a conversation with a family member—let’s call her Sally—who is convinced that our cousin, who is poor and struggles with

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