https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Hammer.html?id=AqDCEAAAQBAJ&source=kp_author_description
About the author (2024)
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.
Article on him from his alma mater:
https://www.flagler.edu/news-events/news/flagler-alumnus-hamilton-nolans-hammer-power-inequality-and-struggle-soul-labor
For Flagler alumnus and award-winning journalist Hamilton Nolan, ‘03, a career following and reporting on labor unions has now led to the publishing of his first book, “The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor.”
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“I’m a labor journalist,” he stated. “I’ve been a journalist for about 20 years… I went through my own union campaign at the place where I was working in 2015. It was called Gawker Media, and we were the first online media company to unionize.”
In 2021, while reporting on labor for In These Times, Nolan was covering the “intertwined crises and opportunities” that faced workers in America in the wake of the pandemic. Before that, he had spent five years reporting on labor.
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Since its release in 2024, the book has been written up in Vanity Fair, The Los Angeles Review of Books and The New York Times. The Times called it “a lively account of the current landscape of American labor organizing … 'The Hammer' offers an impressive array of scenes from the front lines of the 21st-century economy.”
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