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

CFP: MLWCH Graduate Student Colloquium 2012 (Deadline: December 1, 2011)

Midwest Labor and Working-Class History (MLWCH) Graduate Student Colloquium University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee February 17 & 18, 2012 (Paper Proposals by December 1, 2011;

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National Day of Labor Solidarity, Nov. 17th (Thursday)

A national day of labor solidarity has been called for this Thursday November 17 by the Occupy Wall Street movement and numerous labor

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Bread and Roses Strike Centennial Anniversary Conference (April 27-28, 2012)

When 30,000 workers walked out of Lawrence’s textile mills in the dead of a New England winter in January 1912, they launched an

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LAWCHA Member Lisa Phillips on C-SPAN’s The Contenders Series, Eugene V. Debs

LAWCHA member Lisa Phillips recently appeared on C-SPAN’s historical series, The Contenders, documenting presidential contenders that ran and lost, but nevertheless changed the

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CFP: North American Labor History Conference — Insurgency and Resistance (Deadline: March 23, 2012)

The 34th Annual North American Labor History Conference October 18-20, 2012 Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan The Program Committee of the North American

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“Occupy” Protests

In September, 2011 a small group of protesters gathered on Wall Street to protest growing inequality in the United States. It has since

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Call for Proposals

CFP: How Class Works, SUNY (Deadline: December 12, 2011)

How Class Works, 2010 Call for Presentations A Conference at SUNY Stony Brook June 7-9, 2012 The Center for Study of Working Class

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CFP “Bread, Yes, But Roses Too”: Government, Public Sector Unions, and Common Wealth – Pacific Northwest Labor History Association (Deadline: January 13, 2012)

Call for Papers, Workshops and Presentations for the 2012 Conference, to be held in Tacoma, Washington May 18 – 20. Rosemary FeurerRosemary Feurer

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SLSA at the SHA, Baltimore, Maryland

The Southern Labor Studies Association will be at the annual Southern Historical Association in Baltimore, Maryland, this year. Below is a detailed description

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Freedom U: Education for the Undocumented

This past year, the university system in the state of Georgia adopted a policy that effectively bars undocumented immigrants from entering into the

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