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.
2017 Seattle Live Blog

Industrial Nostalgia and Heritage Preservation

Friday’s session on Industrial Nostalgia and Heritage Preservation alerted us to the way that industrial decline has become the basis for historical interpretations.

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2017 Seattle Live Blog

A strike and an uprising [in Texas]

I was very impressed with Friday’s fine cut screening of session B.7 “A strike and an uprising [in Texas]”: an experimental telling of

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2017 Seattle Live Blog

Hello World!

Welcome to the Seattle Conference 2017 Live Blog. Rosemary FeurerRosemary Feurer is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the author

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Call for Proposals Contingent Faculty Committee Blog

Call for Proposals: 45th Annual Conference for the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions

The National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions, Hunter College, City University of New York, invites

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Issues of Labor

Labor 14.2 (May, 2017)

In This Issue Editor’s Introduction Leon Fink, “Editor’s Introduction Rosemary FeurerRosemary Feurer is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the

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Issues of Labor

Labor 14.1 (March, 2017)

In This Issue Editor’s Introduction Leon Fink, “Editor’s Introduction Rosemary FeurerRosemary Feurer is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the

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Call for Proposals

Why History? Association of Academic Historians in Australian and New Zealand Business Schools in Sydney, Australia, November, 2017

The Business and Labour History Group (BLHG) of University of Sydney Business School, Australia, will be hosting the 9th Annual Conference of AAHANZBS

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Call for Proposals

Midwest Labor and Working Class History Colloquium CFP

Midwest Labor and Working Class History Colloquium organizers are currently soliciting papers for the 2017 colloquium. We welcome scholars from any discipline interested

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OpEd

Eileen Boris, “The Decades of History Behind Arguments Made by President Trump’s Labor Secretary Pick,” Time, February 7, 2017

The Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. CEO is sure to be grilled by the Senate on his past statements about the rejection of higher

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Activism LAWCHA

LAWCHA joins AHA statement condemning travel ban executive order

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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