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092    331.8|bNOL 
100 1  Nolan, Hamilton,|eauthor. 
245 14 The hammer :|bpower, inequality, and the struggle for the 
       soul of labor /|cHamilton Nolan. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bHachette Books,|c2024. 
300    vii, 260 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    Includes index. 
520    "The thesis is simple: Inequality is America's biggest 
       problem. Unions are the single strongest tool that working
       people have to fix this problem. But the labor movement of
       today has failed to enable enough individuals to join 
       unions. Thus, organized labor's powerful potential is 
       being wielded incompetently. And what is happening inside 
       of organized labor will-far more than most people realize-
       -determine the economic and social course of American life
       for years to come. In deeply reported chapters that span 
       the country, Nolan shows readers how organized labor can 
       and does wield power effectively--in spots--but also why 
       it has long been unable to build itself into the powerful 
       institution that the working class needs. These narratives
       both inspire by example and motivate by counter-example. 
       Whether it's a union that has succeeded in a single city, 
       and is trying to scale that effectiveness nationally, or 
       the ins and outs of a historically large and 
       transformative union campaign, or the human face of a 
       strike, or a profile of the most anti-union state in 
       America, Nolan highlights the actual mechanisms that 
       connect labor to politics to real change. Throughout, 
       Nolan follows Sara Nelson, the powerful and charismatic 
       head of the flight attendants union, as she struggles with
       how (and whether) to assert herself as a national leader 
       of the labor movement, to try to fix what is broken about 
       it. The Hammer draws the line from forgotten workplaces to
       Washington's halls of power, and shows how labor can 
       utterly transform American politics--if it can first 
       transform itself. Nolan is an expert who has covered labor
       and politics for more than a decade, and has helped to 
       unionize his own industry. The time has come for his 
       poignant and enlightening book as we prepare for the 
       historic 2024 presidential election. The Hammer is a 
       unique on-the-ground excavation of the present and the 
       future of the labor movement. It is the story of what the 
       labor movement can be, and why it isn't that...yet"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Equality. 
650  0 Labor movement. 
650  0 Labor|xPolitical aspects.