Archive:Women
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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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WCP: Everybody Knows About Alabama
The 1963 KKK bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham resulting in the death of four adolescent girls inspired Nina Simone to write protest songs. Decades later, Doug Jones made the successful prosecution of two of the bombers part of his Alabama U.S. Senate campaign against Roy Moore. In this week’s Working-Class Perspective, Sherry Linkon and John Russo discuss how history, politics, and culture are woven together in Christina Ham’s play with music, Nina Simone: Four Women.
Category: Visiting Scholars
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WCP: Working-Class Women Unionists on the Front Lines
Working-class women are becoming the face of the labor movement in Australia and inspiring unions to fight for feminist issues. In this week’s Working-Class Perspective, Sarah Attfield profiles three women unionists at the helm of the worker struggle in Australia.
Category: Visiting Scholars
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WCP: #MeToo Solidarity
Although news coverage of sexual assault has focused on celebrity perpetrators, sexual harassment is a workplace issue that unites women across ages, classes, and industries. In this week's Working-
Category: Visiting Scholars
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Worker Organizing Roundtable features Lane Windham’s Knocking on Labor’s Door
How can working people build power today when organizing a union is so difficult? That question was at the heart of a KI roundtable discussion on strategic twenty-first century worker organizing with AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Elissa McBride, Jobs with Justice Organizing Director Erica Smiley, and KI Associate Director Lane Windham.
Categories: Events, Our Staff, Women Innovating Labor Leadership
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WCP: Women Hold the Keys to New Working-Class Prosperity
Pundits use ‘working class’ as a shorthand for white blue-collar men, but the American worker today is just as likely to be a woman of color in the service or healthcare industry. In this week’s Working-Class Perspective, Lane Windham makes the case for promoting women’s leadership in the labor movement and introduces an ambitious project seeking to do just that.
Categories: Visiting Scholars, Women Innovating Labor Leadership
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Kalmanovitz Initiative to Help Build New Generation of Women’s Labor Leadership
Georgetown’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor will identify, nurture, train and convene a new generation of diverse, female labor leaders in a collaborative effort with Rutgers
Category: Our Staff
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WCP: More than Cash: What It Really Takes to Address Poverty
To address poverty in the global south we must do more than build schools or put cash in people's pockets. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Dominique Hess argues that real change begins wit
Category: Visiting Scholars
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Global Women / Global Work
Join us at 4pm on Monday, September 26 in Copley Formal Lounge for an event exploring the experiences of working women whose lives are impacted by globalization in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas.