Archive: Lane Windham
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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
Category: In the News
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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
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Lane Windham in The Hill: It’s time for a new social compact
“This Labor Day, working people and their labor organizations can lead the way to a new, 21st century grand bargain that leverages government support in novel ways to build workers’ social protections.”
Category: In the News
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Intersectionality and Women’s Voting Rights Over the Past Century (Video)
The Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University, the National Parks Service, and WILL Empower co-sponsored the webinar “Gender, Race, Class, and the Vote: From the 19th Amendment to COVID-19” to discuss how race and class have shaped womens’ ability to vote over the past century. This June 23 panel was moderated by Lane Windham, Associate Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative and co-director of WILL Empower.
Categories: Events, Women Innovating Labor Leadership
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WCP: COVID-19 Is a Perfect Storm for Women Workers
Women have long held the most precarious jobs, made less money than men, and done most of the paid and unpaid caregiving. As Lane Windham writes in this week’s Working-Class Perspectives, the coronavirus exacerbates these inequalities. While men appear to have a greater chance of dying from COVID-19, the underlying condition of gender inequality makes women particularly vulnerable to economic disaster in the months and years to come.
Category: Uncategorized
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WCP: This Is Your Daughter’s Labor Movement
As the challenges facing the labor movement continue to change, so does the composition of the labor movement itself. In this week’s Working-Class Perspective’s, Lane Windham discusses how women are leading the labor movement and creating innovative strategies to address the movement’s future.
Category: Visiting Scholars
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Lane Windham, KI Associate Director, Receives Prestigious Labor History Award
KI Associate Director Lane Windham has been awarded the prestigious 2018 David Montgomery Award from the Organization of American Historians (OAH) at its annual meeting in Sacramento, California. The
Categories: In the News, Our Staff, People, Women Innovating Labor Leadership
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Heather Booth Film Leaves GU Inspired and Hopeful
A screening last week of Heather Booth: Changing the World left a crowd of students, faculty, and community members stirred to action, and more committed than ever to working for social justice. H
Category: Women Innovating Labor Leadership