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.
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Expertise Needed: Inter-Union and Federation-Level Organizing: New and Forgotten Methods

The AFL-CIO has formed a committee of labor historians to prepare a document to help them think about the future of organized labor.

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Labor History

Last Call for LRAN Travel Funding (Deadline: April 26)

Last call for LRAN conference travel funding! We are still accepting requests for travel funding for the LRAN conference. For all grad students,

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Events (Old)

Labor Research Action Network Conference

June 16-18. One of the principal goals of the Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) is to create a space for the generation

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AFL-CIO Labor Historians Meeting at the OAH, Thursday, April 11, 2013

Please see the following message from Dan Katz pertaining to a committee about new and forgotten strategies of unionization. All interested historians are

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LAWCHA Conference Program Advertisements (Deadline: May 1)

The Labor and Working Class Association 2013 Conference Program will provide advertisements for publishers, journals, magazines, and other organizations who wish to market

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Mainstream media thinks studying the history of capitalism is a good thing

Two recent stories in the bastions of mainstream media draw attention to the study of capitalism and Marx. That’s all to the good,

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Events (Old)

March to Commemorate Winston-Salem Local 22

April 20, 2013. A group of journalists and activists in Winston-Salem are organizing a rally and march to commemorate the work of a

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Issues of Labor LAWCHA

Labor 10.1 (Spring, 2013)

In This Issue The Common Verse William Boggs, “It’s Them Robots“ LAWCHA Watch Shelton Stromquist, “Going Global“ Arts and Media Joshua Brown, “Introduction

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B&O Railroad Strike of 1887 Memoralized at Camden Yards

On Saturday morning, March 23, 2013, in Baltimore, MD, an historic marker was unveiled on South Howard Street, next to the Camden Yards

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Robert H. Zieger Prize for Southern Labor Studies

In honor of the late Robert H. Zieger–teacher, scholar, and tireless union activist–the Southern Labor Studies Association announces that it is raising funds

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