 Lane Windham, Associate Director of Georgetown University's Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor and co-director of WILL Empower (Women Innovating Labor Leadership), discusses her brand-new new book “Knocking on Labor's Door” tonight at 6p at the Takoma Busboys and Poets. "Knocking on Labor's Door" shakes up current debates about labor's future by offering a fresh narrative for labor’s recent past. Highlighting the integral, often-overlooked contributions of women, people of color, young workers, and southerners, Windham reveals how in the 1970s a newly diversified working class powered a new wave of private-sector union organizing efforts. Employers, however, united to manipulate weak labor law and quash this new organizing wave. Windham's story inspires both hope and indignation, and will become a must-read for labor activists and scholars. The talk is part of the Metro Council's monthly Bread and Roses labor culture series.
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