Lane Windham
Biographic Data
| ID | 4120741 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lane Windham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lane |
| FAMILY NAME | Windham |
| SIGNATURE | WINDHAM L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-6401-6497 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The 1968 Florida Teachers' Strike
The Era Was Lost
Chairs. Eggs. Punches. These were just a few of the things New York City’s rank-and-filers threw at politicians, established union leaders, and one another during a wave of upsurge in 1965–75, according to Glenn Dyer’s The Era Was Lost. Dyer persuasively argues that dissident union members’ rising anger about low pay, weak contracts, and decreased blue-collar status helped drive a new wave of sanctioned and wildcat strikes, contract rejections, a…
Could Sisyphus Have Tried Harder? Reflections on the Sweeney Administration’s Efforts at Mass Organizing, Thirty Years Later
The Hamlet Fire
The pandemic spotlighted vulnerable and forgotten workers. America banged pots and pans for essential workers, cheering on delivery drivers and thanking cashiers. But did COVID really change the landscape for low-wage workers? On one hand, support for unions is now higher than it has been in decades, and Gen Z's labor activism promises new movement energy. On the other hand, corporations have doubled down on what Bryant Simon aptly calls, in The …
Sara Nelson on Next-Gen Leadership and Helping People Find Their Own Power
Quick, which US workers are among the most likely to have a union in the private sector? Construction workers? Nope. Steelworkers or coal miners? Uh-uh. Try flight attendants.1Sara Nelson, Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA) president, burst into the public’s consciousness in early 2019 when she called for a general strike to support furloughed federal workers and end President Donald Trump’s federal government shutdown. The Twitterverse l…
Building a New Generation of Women Labor Leaders
Anyone who glimpsed the diverse group of young women intently conferencing at Georgetown University might have mistaken them for diligent students. In fact, they were the inaugural apprenticeship class of the WILL Empower initiative that is designed to identify, nurture, and train a new generation of women labor leaders. The Apprenticeship Program is one of four interwoven programs spearheaded by WILL Empower (Women Innovating Labor Leadership), …
Author’s Response
A History of Capitalism Done the Right Way
In Fear City, Kim Phillips-Fein has created a blueprint for how to write an inclusive and accessible study within the ascendant “history of capitalism” field. The history of capitalism is often seen as a kind of amalgam of business history, which puts companies and markets at its center, and labor history, which centers workers, their communities, and their organizations. The history of capitalism is supposed to offer us a larger and more holisti…
A Sense of Possibility and a Belief in Collective Power”
Historian and former union organizer Lane Windham sits down with longtime labor activist and leader Karen Nussbaum to discuss the promises and challenges in today's worker's movement through the lens of Nussbaum's own life. In 1973, Nussbaum cofounded 9to5, a groundbreaking women office workers' group, and now directs Working America, a community-based AFL-CIO group for working people who do not have a union, founded in 2003. Windham paints Nussb…
Signing Up in the Shipyard
Through a case study of the largest National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election in the 1970s, the author challenges the dominant historical narrative that the entire decade was a period of decline for worker militancy. Instead, Lane Windham argues that workers were steadily forming unions in the private sector throughout the 1970s and their success rates dropped when they were met by markedly increased employer resistance. The author examines …
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Signing Up in the Shipyard
Through a case study of the largest National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election in the 1970s, the author challenges the dominant historical narrative that the entire decade was a period of decline for worker militancy. Instead, Lane Windham argues that workers were steadily forming unions in the private sector throughout the 1970s and their success rates dropped when they were met by markedly increased employer resistance. The author examines …
A Sense of Possibility and a Belief in Collective Power”
Historian and former union organizer Lane Windham sits down with longtime labor activist and leader Karen Nussbaum to discuss the promises and challenges in today's worker's movement through the lens of Nussbaum's own life. In 1973, Nussbaum cofounded 9to5, a groundbreaking women office workers' group, and now directs Working America, a community-based AFL-CIO group for working people who do not have a union, founded in 2003. Windham paints Nussb…
Author’s Response
A History of Capitalism Done the Right Way
In Fear City, Kim Phillips-Fein has created a blueprint for how to write an inclusive and accessible study within the ascendant “history of capitalism” field. The history of capitalism is often seen as a kind of amalgam of business history, which puts companies and markets at its center, and labor history, which centers workers, their communities, and their organizations. The history of capitalism is supposed to offer us a larger and more holisti…
Building a New Generation of Women Labor Leaders
Anyone who glimpsed the diverse group of young women intently conferencing at Georgetown University might have mistaken them for diligent students. In fact, they were the inaugural apprenticeship class of the WILL Empower initiative that is designed to identify, nurture, and train a new generation of women labor leaders. The Apprenticeship Program is one of four interwoven programs spearheaded by WILL Empower (Women Innovating Labor Leadership), …
Sara Nelson on Next-Gen Leadership and Helping People Find Their Own Power
Quick, which US workers are among the most likely to have a union in the private sector? Construction workers? Nope. Steelworkers or coal miners? Uh-uh. Try flight attendants.1Sara Nelson, Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA) president, burst into the public’s consciousness in early 2019 when she called for a general strike to support furloughed federal workers and end President Donald Trump’s federal government shutdown. The Twitterverse l…
The Hamlet Fire
The pandemic spotlighted vulnerable and forgotten workers. America banged pots and pans for essential workers, cheering on delivery drivers and thanking cashiers. But did COVID really change the landscape for low-wage workers? On one hand, support for unions is now higher than it has been in decades, and Gen Z's labor activism promises new movement energy. On the other hand, corporations have doubled down on what Bryant Simon aptly calls, in The …
Could Sisyphus Have Tried Harder? Reflections on the Sweeney Administration’s Efforts at Mass Organizing, Thirty Years Later
The 1968 Florida Teachers' Strike
The Era Was Lost
Chairs. Eggs. Punches. These were just a few of the things New York City’s rank-and-filers threw at politicians, established union leaders, and one another during a wave of upsurge in 1965–75, according to Glenn Dyer’s The Era Was Lost. Dyer persuasively argues that dissident union members’ rising anger about low pay, weak contracts, and decreased blue-collar status helped drive a new wave of sanctioned and wildcat strikes, contract rejections, a…
Labor Movements and Unions (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economic history (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)