Labor History Today

Hamilton Nolan and “The Hammer”


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Labor journalist Hamilton Nolan on the labor movement past, present and future and his new book “The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor.” Recorded live at the eighth annual Reuther-Pollack Labor History Symposium on August 31 in Wheeling, West Virginia. Music by the Pittsburgh Labor Choir


On this week’s Labor History in Two: The year was 1970; that was the day 350,000 GM workers kicked off a 67-day strike.

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Labor History Today is produced by the Labor Heritage Foundation and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Today’s show recorded by Patrick Dixon and produced by Chris Garlock; photo by Garlock. 

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