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On West 18th Street in Manhattan Monday morning, in front of a nondescript office building, a small crowd formed. As the minutes…
Hamilton Nolan
Hamilton Nolan is a labor writer for In These Times. He has spent the past decade writing about labor and politics for Gawker, Splinter, The Guardian, and elsewhere. More of his work is on Substack.
Nations have governments. Nations are full of people. The government and the people are two different things. The failure to take this…
Ronald Reagan, who launched the modern American age of inequality, and Donald Trump, who is riding its consequences into an ominous new…
I wrote a piece for In These Times this week called “Unions Without Strikes,” which was prompted by something very big and…
Few things are as easily predictable as the path that America is walking down towards its awful, inevitable national political war over…
In February, Starbucks finally agreed to sit down at the bargaining table with their workers’ union. They agreed to this not out…
Strikes are different from protests. Though protesters frequently say that they are making “demands,” it is more accurate to say they are making…
Political power comes from labor power. Not vice versa. It’s a presidential election year. Are you happy? Excited? Ha. Of course not. Election…
Regular people who are not directly involved in the labor movement often find it hard to get interested in stuff that is…
Regular people who are not directly involved in the labor movement often find it hard to get interested in stuff that is…