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
