Unions Fighting Inequity: A Conversation with Hamilton Nolan
Author of The Hammer: Power, Inequity and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor

East Side Freedom Library
1105 Greenbrier Street, Saint Paul
Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 7 p.m.

Join the East Side Freedom Library for a conversation with Hamilton Nolan, author of The Hammer: Power, Inequity and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor. Organized labor 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. We see this in a new surge of organizing here in the Twin Cities, including baristas, booksellers, museum employees, graduate students, rideshare drivers, healthcare workers, and more.

In The Hammer, Nolan shows readers the actual places where labor and politics meld. He highlights how organized labor can and does wield power effectively.

Hamilton Nolan is a labor journalist who writes regularly for In These Times magazine and The Guardian. He has written about labor, politics, and class war for The New York Times, the Washington Post, Gawker, Splinter, and other publications. He was the longest-serving writer in Gawker’s history, and was a leader in unionizing Gawker Media in 2015. Hamilton is a proud member of the Writers Guild of America, East. He lives in Brooklyn.

Copies of the book will be for sale from SubText Books.

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE FOR THE CAUSE OF SOLIDARITY!