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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Southern Labor Studies Association: Many Souths

The SLSA invites a broad range of panels on southern working-class history, while at the same time it asks participants to examine how

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LAWCHA News People

Gutman Prize Winner, Marjorie Elizabeth Wood, Writes for New York Times

Marjorie Elizabeth Wood, LAWCHA’s 2012 Gutman Prize Winner, recently wrote an OpEd piece for the New York Times! The piece draws much from

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Call for Proposals News

Reed Fink Award Deadline May 15

One or more fellowship(s) of $250-$500 are awarded annually to individual(s) whose research in the Southern Labor Archives will lead to a book,

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Labor History News

Bread and Roses Centennial Symposium Report, by Janet Weaver

On the hundredth anniversary of the Bread and Roses textile strike, over 300 labor activists, researchers and community members gathered on April 28

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Labor History News OpEd

Reflections on the Bread and Roses Academic Symposium, April 28, 2012

Rosemary FeurerRosemary Feurer is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950, among

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Immigrant Rights in Alabama

Yesterday, Alabama lawmakers refused to repeal the disastrous HB 56 despite the million dollars this failed experiment continues to cost the state every

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Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) Conference, June 11-12

LRAN is aimed to create a space for the generation and exchange of fresh ideas and thinking among labor leaders, activists, scholars and

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“How Class Works,” Stony Brook, New York, June 7-9

You are invivted to come to the How Class Works – 2012 conference at SUNY Stony Brook June 7-9, 2012. Nearly 200 people

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LAWCHA at the OAH, (April 18-22)

LAWCHA is at the OAH this year. Read below for the list of panels and events hosted by or co-sponsored by LAWCHA. Key

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Threat to Academic Freedom of Michigan’s Public Universities

LAWCHA members and labor activists around the country are uniting against a recently proposed legislative ban on Michigan universities collaborating with a worker

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