Rosemary Feurer
Rosemary Feurer
Rosemary Feurer is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950, among other books and essays. She is working on The Illinois Mine Wars, 1860-1940 and a new biography of Mary Harris "Mother" Jones.
LaborOnline New Book Interviews

David Roediger on his new book, An Ordinary White

In his new memoir, An Ordinary White: My Antiracist Education (2025), David Roediger provides a moving account of his lifetime of scholarship and

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Tom Alter: Campaign for Reinstatement after Firing

LAWCHA has issued a powerful statement of support for LAWCHA member and historian Tom Alter, who was recently fired without due process from

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David Montgomery’s Diverse and Transnational Working Class: a Model of Continuing Relevance?

This is one of a few  brief summaries of panels and papers from the Labor and Working Class History Association conference, June 2025.

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LaborOnline Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series

Springfield, Illinois Marker Honors Black Union Activist

On June 17, 2025, an official Illinois historical marker that highlights the experiences and activism of Black coal miners in Illinois was dedicated

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Sean Griffin on The Root and The Branch: Working-Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790–1860

 Sean Griffin, The Root and the Branch (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024)The Root and the Branch: Working Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790-1860 conveys

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Alan Singer on his new book, Class-Conscious Coal Miners

Alan Singer’s new book excavates the Central Pennsylvania miners as they struggled at multiple levels: against mechanization, for democracy in their union, the

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Labor History Bibliography, 2024

This is my 12th year of creating the annual bibliography, which used to be in the LAWCHA annual newsletter. If you think a

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Amazon’s Mechanical Turk: Historical Perspective

The new issue of Labor: Studies in Working Class History is out, and as usual, we are able to release one of the

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Listen to Salem Elzway to Understand How Elites Have Used Automation

In a recent issue of Labor, Salem Elzway and Jason Resnikoff published an article that gives all workers insights into this ongoing deployment

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James C. Benton on his recent book, Fraying Fabric How Trade Policy and Industrial Decline Transformed America

James C Benton’s 2022 Fraying Fabric: How Trade Policy and Industrial Decline Transformed America (University of Illinois Press, 2022) asks important questions about

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