Lane Windham on Union Organizing in the 1970s
Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast2 Nov 2017

Lane Windham on Union Organizing in the 1970s

Since the most recent election, we've heard a lot of news about the so-called working class. But all too often, this term seems to refer to white men instead of the diverse group of people who actually comprise the working class. Similarly, in the years since the 2008 recession, more and more attention has been given economic inequality that has grown ever larger over the past few decades. On today's show, we speak with Lane Windham about union organizing in the 1970s and how these efforts reveal necessary context to understanding the many struggles of the actual working class, and what this history can reveal about the growth of economic inequality since the 1970s.

Lane Windham is Associate Director of Georgetown University's Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor and co-director of WILL Empower (Women Innovating Labor Leadership). She is the author of Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide.

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