Hamilton Nolan: How the Labor Movement Can Save America (and Why It Hasn't Yet)

America’s 50-year-long rise in economic inequality is the big crisis underlying most of our nation’s social and political problems. Organized labor is the single most effective tool that regular people can use to reverse this inequality. Yet labor unions have been on the decline for decades. Can the labor movement seize its current moment of popularity as an opportunity to rebuild worker power and revive the American dream? Yes. But will it? That’s up to us. About Hamilton Nolan 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.