| Edition |
Revised and updated. |
| Description |
x, 461 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-428) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface to the revised edition -- Foreword and acknowledgments from the first edition -- Labor in colonial America : the bound and the free -- The American Revolution -- Slavery and freedom in the new Republic -- Civil War and Reconstruction -- Labor versus monopoly in the Gilded Age -- Labor and empire -- America, Inc. -- Labor on the march -- Hot war, cold war -- The Sixties -- Hard times -- One step forward, two steps back -- Workers of the world -- Rising tide -- Tipping points. |
| Summary |
A comprehensive look at the history of the United States through the prism of working people. In this fully updated new edition, the authors have added a wealth of fresh analysis of labor's role in American life, and three entirely new chapters on global labor developments, worker activism in immigrant communities, and the 2016 election and unions' relationships to Trump. -- Adapted from back cover. |
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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). -- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Labor -- United States -- History.
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Labor. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Working class -- United States -- History.
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Working class. |
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Labor movement -- United States -- History.
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Labor movement. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Added Author |
Chitty, A. B., author.
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Sacco, Joe, illustrator.
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| Added Title |
Illustrated history of labor in the United States |
| ISBN |
9781620974483 (pb) |
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1620974487 (pb) |
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9781620974490 (e-book) |
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