Rosemary Feurer
Rosemary Feurer

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Rosemary Feurer is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of <em>Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950,</em> among other books and essays. She is working on The Illinois Mine Wars, 1860-1940 and a new biography of Mary Harris "Mother" Jones.
Call for Proposals

Southern Labor Studies Association Dissertation Prospectus Workshop

The SLSA will hold a Dissertation Prospectus Workshop on the first day of its upcoming conference in Athens, GA (May 17-19). Doctoral students

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Activism

UnKoch My Campus

UnKoch My Campus works with passionate students, fiery faculty, and concerned community members to fight the corrupting influence of Koch brothers’ funding at

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Call for Proposals

Robert H. Zieger Prize for Southern Labor Studies: 2017 CFP

The Southern Labor Studies Association is currently accepting submissions for the Robert H. Zieger Prize for Southern Labor Studies. SLSA awards the Zieger

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Issues of Labor

Labor 14.3 (September 2017)

In This Issue Editor’s Introduction Leon Fink, “Editor’s Introduction“

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LAWCHA

LAWCHA In Seattle: 2017 Conference Recap

The Scales of Struggle conference featured the largest program of any LAWCHA conference to date features nearly 100 panels, workshops, films, and performances,

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LAWCHA

Mass Incarceration and the Working Class – LAWCHA Conference 2017

At the 2017 LAWCHA Conference in Seattle, a world-class panel of experts discussed the affects of mass incarceration on the working class. Featured

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LAWCHA

Congratulations to our 2017 Award Winners

Congratulations to our 2017 prize and award winners, announced formally at the 2017 Annual LAWCHA Conference in Seattle, Washington.

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2017 Seattle Live Blog

Ludlow: Greek Americans in the Colorado Coal War

Saturday’s session on the Documentary Ludlow: Greek Americans in the Colorado Coal War offered a new transnational perspective on a well-known topic. We

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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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