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
