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 Events (Old)

44th Annual PNLHA Conference, “Mining Our Past”

The 44th Annual Conference of the Pacific Northwest Labour History Association (PNLHA) takes place in the historic village of Cumberland, B.C., June 13-15,

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Call for Proposals Events (Old)

MLWCH Colloquium, “Resistance and Remembrance: Collective Identities and the Uses of History”

Held at the University of Illinois at Chicago on Friday, April 4 and Saturday, April 5, 2014 the annual Midwest Labor and Working-Class

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OpEd

Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein, “Who cares for those who care?”

In 2009, Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, writing for the majority, in Long Island Care at Home vs. Evelyn Coke upheld the

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Labor History

Heather Thompson, “How Prisons Have Changed America’s Electoral Politics,” The Atlantic

What has it really cost the United States to build the world’s most massive prison system? To answer this question, some point to

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Labor History People

Inaugural David Montgomery Award (Deadline: November 1)

The David Montgomery Award will be given annually beginning in 2014 by the OAH with co-sponsorship by the Labor and Working-Class History Association

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OpEd

Brian Greenberg, “Labor unions to focus on cementing partnerships”

In a June 2, 1897, letter to the New York Journal, Mark Twain responded to newspaper accounts that he either was seriously ill

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OpEd

Sarah Rose and Joshua Salzmann, “Our nation of bionic workers”

As Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez prepares to appeal his 211-game suspension, seeking the $86 million remaining on his contract, it would be

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Issues of Labor

Labor 10.3 (Fall, 2013)

In This Issue The Common Verse Robin Clarke, “Untitled (The Mine Collapsed Under)“ LAWCHA Watch Rosemary Feurer, “LAWCHA and the Lesson Plan“ Contemporary

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OpEd

Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein, “Revaluing the Labor of Care”

They were to be neither nurses nor maids, but front-line careworkers whose efforts allowed frail elderly and disabled people to remain at home.

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Call for Proposals

Food and Work (Deadline: October 1)

Susan Levine and Steve Striffler send a call for papers for a special issue of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas

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