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Lane Windham Wins the 2018 David Montgomery Award

April 17, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities | History

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Lane Windham, '15 History, won this year's David Montgomery Award for her book about American labor and working-class history.

The Graduate School

"Doctor Lane Windham ('15, History) has won this year's prestigious Organization of American Historians' David Montgomery Award with cosponsorship by the Labor and Working-Class History Association, for the best book on a topic in American labor and working-class history. Her recent book entitled 'Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide,' counters the argument that the power of the labor movement declined in the 1970s as unions stopped organizing and workers turned away from unions."

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