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Hamilton Nolan with Faye Guenther
Acclaimed labor reporter Hamilton Nolan discusses his new nonfiction book with Faye Guenther from UFCW Local 3000. The Hammer is a timely, in-depth, and vital exploration of the American labor movement and its critical place in our society and politics.
In The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor, Hamilton Nolan argues that inequality is America’s biggest problem. Unions are the single strongest tool that working people have to fix it. Organized labor has been in decline for decades. Yet it sits today at a moment of enormous opportunity. In the wake of the pandemic, a highly visible wave of strikes and new organizing campaigns have driven the popularity of unions to historic highs. The simmering battle inside of the labor movement over how to tap into its revolutionary potential—or allow it to be squandered—will determine the economic and social course of American life for years to come.
In chapters that span the country, Nolan shows readers the actual places where labor and politics meld. Throughout, Nolan follows Sara Nelson, the fiery and charismatic head of the flight attendants’ union, as she struggles with how (and whether) to assert herself as a national leader, to try to fix what is broken. The Hammer draws the line from forgotten workplaces in rural West Virginia to Washington’s halls of power, and shows how labor solidarity can utterly transform American politics—if it can first transform itself.
Hamilton Nolan is a longtime labor journalist. He writes frequently for The Guardian, In These Times, and elsewhere. He was Gawker's longest-serving writer, from 2008 to 2016, and helped to lead the successful union drive at Gawker Media in 2015. He lives in Brooklyn, and is a proud member of the Writers Guild of America, East. More of his work can be found at HamiltonNolan.com.
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