Description
Recounting how employees attempted to unionize against overwhelming odds, Knocking on Labor's Door dramatically refashions the narrative of working-class struggle during a crucial decade and shakes up current debates about labor's future. Windham's story inspires both hope and indignation, and will become a must-read in labor, civil rights, and women's history.
About the Author
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).
Reviews
The book marks yet another superb monograph from a fresh cohort of labor historians who challenge pessimistic narratives of organized labor's decline with inspiring studies of a diverse array of workers." - The Journal of Southern History
"Windham is one of those rare academics who has worked professionally as an organizer, and the intellectual advantage that this experience has provided is hard to overstate." - Gabriel Winant, The Nation
"The book does a brilliant job of explaining the USA's unique industrial relations framework, shaped so much by the NLRB election process and the privatized nature of health care and social security." - Labour History Project Bulletin
"Provides sharp insight into the nature and depth of the problems we now face in trying to provide income and health care for the many rather than continuing to funnel society's wealth to the obscenely rich few who dominate the country and the global economy." - American Historical Review
Book Information
ISBN 9781469654775
Author Lane Windham
Format Paperback
Page Count 312
Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press
Weight(grams) 445g