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From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend : An Illustrated History of Labor in the United States by Priscilla Murolo and A. B. Chitty (2018, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherNew Press, T.H.E.
ISBN-101620974487
ISBN-139781620974483
eBay Product ID (ePID)242637942
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Book TitleFrom the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend : an Illustrated History of Labor in the United States
Number of Pages416 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2018
TopicLabor & Industrial Relations, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Labor, United States / General
IllustratorSacco, Joe, Yes
GenrePolitical Science, Social Science, Business & Economics, History
AuthorPriscilla Murolo, A. B. Chitty
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight0 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.5 in
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ReviewsPraise for the first edition: "A comprehensive history of American labor. . . . Enlivened and diverted by the humorous cartoon narratives of Joe Sacco." --The Washington Post "Thoroughly includes the contributions of women, Native Americans, African Americans, immigrants, and minorities, and considers events often ignored in other histories." --Booklist "An evergreen ... comparable to Howard Zinn's award-winning A People's History of the United States." --Publishers Weekly "A marvelously informed, carefully crafted, far-ranging history of working people." --Noam Chomsky
Synopsis"A marvelously informed, carefully crafted, far-ranging history of working people." --Noam Chomsky An updated edition of "an evergreen . . . comparable to Howard Zinn's award-winning A People's History of the United States " ( Publishers Weekly ) Hailed as a work of "impressive even-handedness and analytic acuity" ( Publishers Weekly , starred review), From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend has set the standard for viewing American history through the prism of working people. From indentured servants and slaves in seventeenth-century Chesapeake to high-tech workers in contemporary Silicon Valley, the book " puts] a human face on the people, places, events, and social conditions that have shaped the evolution of organized labor" ( Library Journal ), enlivened by numerous full-page illustrations throughout from the celebrated comics journalist Joe Sacco. In this fully updated new edition, authors Priscilla Murolo and A.B. Chitty have added a wealth of fresh analysis of labor's role in American life, with new material on sex workers, disability issues, labor's relation to the global justice movement and the immigrants' rights movement, the 2005 split in the AFL-CIO and the movement civil wars that followed, and the crucial emergence of worker centers and their relationships to unions. With two entirely new chapters--one on global developments, from the movement of jobs offshore to the emergence of modern global union federations, and a second on the 2016 election and unions' relationships to Trump-- From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend will remain the standard, "comprehensive history of American labor" ( The Washington Post )., "A marvelously informed, carefully crafted, far-ranging history of working people." -Noam Chomsky An updated edition of "an evergreen . . . comparable to Howard Zinn's award-winning A People's History of the United States " ( Publishers Weekly )Hailed as a work of "impressive even-handedness and analytic acuity" (Publishers Weekly , starred review), From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend has set the standard for viewing American history through the prism of working people. From indentured servants and slaves in seventeenth-century Chesapeake to high-tech workers in contemporary Silicon Valley, the book "[puts] a human face on the people, places, events, and social conditions that have shaped the evolution of organized labor" (Library Journal ), enlivened by numerous full-page illustrations throughout from the celebrated comics journalist Joe Sacco. In this fully updated new edition, authors Priscilla Murolo and A.B. Chitty have added a wealth of fresh analysis of labor's role in American life, with new material on sex workers, disability issues, labor's relation to the global justice movement and the immigrants' rights movement, the 2005 split in the AFL-CIO and the movement civil wars that followed, and the crucial emergence of worker centers and their relationships to unions. With two entirely new chapters-one on global developments, from the movement of jobs offshore to the emergence of modern global union federations, and a second on the 2016 election and unions' relationships to Trump-From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend will remain the standard, "comprehensive history of American labor" (The Washington Post )., Newly updated: "An enjoyable introduction to American working-class history." -- The American Prospect Praised for its "impressive even-handedness", From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend has set the standard for viewing American history through the prism of working people ( Publishers Weekly , starred review). From indentured servants and slaves in seventeenth-century Chesapeake to high-tech workers in contemporary Silicon Valley, the book "[puts] a human face on the people, places, events, and social conditions that have shaped the evolution of organized labor", enlivened by illustrations from the celebrated comics journalist Joe Sacco ( Library Journal ). Now, the authors have added a wealth of fresh analysis of labor's role in American life, with new material on sex workers, disability issues, labor's relation to the global justice movement and the immigrants' rights movement, the 2005 split in the AFL-CIO and the movement civil wars that followed, and the crucial emergence of worker centers and their relationships to unions. With two entirely new chapters--one on global developments such as offshoring and a second on the 2016 election and unions' relationships to Trump--this is an "extraordinarily fine addition to U.S. history [that] could become an evergreen . . . comparable to Howard Zinn's award-winning A People's History of the United States " ( Publishers Weekly ). "A marvelously informed, carefully crafted, far-ranging history of working people." --Noam Chomsky
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