From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: An Illustrated History of Labor in the United States - Couverture souple

Murolo, Priscilla; Chitty, A.B.

 
9781620974483: From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: An Illustrated History of Labor in the United States
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ISBN 10 : 1620974487 ISBN 13 : 9781620974483
Editeur : The New Press, 2018

Synopsis

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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À propos des auteurs

Priscilla Murolo teaches American history at Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in Yonkers, New York.

A.B. Chitty works as a librarian systems officer at Queens College. He lives in Yonkers, New York.

Comics journalist Joe Sacco is the author of Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde, and The Great War. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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Éditeur
The New Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1620974487
ISBN 13 
9781620974483
Reliure
Broché
Illustrateur
Sacco Joe
Nombre de pages
416
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9781565847767: From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1565847768 ISBN 13 :  9781565847767
Editeur : The New Press, 2003
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