Archive: Lane Windham
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Despite “weak,” U.S Labor Law, Labor Activity is Heating up in Alabama for Auto Workers. The KI’s Lane Windham Weighs in for Alabama.com
...Lane Windham is a labor historian with Georgetown University. She said an uptick in union activity has been taking place nationwide since the pandemic, as ideas about work changed. The demands
Category: In the News
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Scripps News Weekend| Lane Windham| The Year of The Strike
Lane Windham, Associate Director of The Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and The Working Poor discusses the recent UAW strike and the wave of worker support sweeping the country on Scripps News Weeke
Category: In the News
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The Guardian| “US Unions Winning Big Gains amid ‘Great Reset’ in Worker Power”
KI Associate Director Lane Windham joined Steven Greenhouse with "The Guardian" to discuss The Great Reset and how Unions are showing up in a big way for U.S. workers. Read more on The Guardian
Category: In the News
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PBS News Hour| Lane Windham Talks the UAW Strike and The Recent Wave of Labor Activism
'I think that [younger] generation, they were children during the Great Recession. They saw that. They saw their parents go through that. They watched it from a visceral place...I see [the support of
Category: In the News
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BBC News| Lane Windham Discusses Historic UAW Strike | #HotLaborSummer
https://youtu.be/qTpkzuIUPug Lane Windham, Associate Director of The Kalmanovitz Initiative, sits with BBC news to discuss the first of its kind UAW strike. "It's the first time in the 80+ year
Category: In the News
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Scholars’ Circle | Organizing contemporary Labor unions in the US
The Ki's Associate Director Lane Windham joins Scholars Circle to talk "a new labor awakening" https://scholarscircle.org/scholars-circle-labor-organizers-struggles-of-today-august-6-2023/?fbclid
Category: In the News
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KCRW | Lane Windham discusses “What’s pushing white-collar workers to unionize?”
The Kalmanovitz Initiative’s Associate Director Lane Windham joins Press Play Madeline Brand to discuss the growing movement of white collar workers, such as college adjuncts, unionizing and rising u
Category: In the News
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Working Class Studies| Meeting Labor’s Moment by Lane Windham
The Kalmanovitz Initiative's Associate Director Lane Windham for Working Class Studies discusses the needed pivot away from neoliberalism and new laws, structures and approaches necessary to seize th
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WCP: Blue-Collar Babies: Why America’s Working Class Needs Affordable Child Care
The recent Netflix series Maid, based on Stephanie Land's memoir, highlights the challenges that poor and working-class mothers face in juggling low-wage jobs, social services, and child care. As Lan
Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives
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WCP: Southern Black Women Are Key to Alabama Amazon Union Drive
Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama are voting this month on whether to form a union. As Lane Windham writes in this week's Working-Class Perspectives, African-American women are play
Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives