{"product_id":"9781565847767","title":"From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States","description":"A \"marvelously informed, carefully-crafted, far-ranging history of working people\" (Noam Chomsky).\u003cp\u003eHailed in a starred \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e review as a work of \"impressive even-handedness and analytic acuity...that gracefully handles a broad range of subject matter,\" \u003ci\u003eFrom the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend\u003c\/i\u003e is the first comprehensive look at American history through the prism of working people. From indentured servants and slaves in the 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\" (\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend also \"thoroughly includes the contributions of women, Native Americans, African Americans, immigrants, and minorities, and considers events often ignored in other histories,\" writes \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e, which adds that \"thirty pages of stirring drawings by 'comic journalist' Joe Sacco add an unusual dimension to the book.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor Biography: \u003ci\u003ePriscilla Murolo\u003c\/i\u003e teaches American history and directs the M.A. program in Women's History at Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Common Ground of Womanhood.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eA. B. Chitty\u003c\/i\u003e works as a librarian systems officer at Queens College of the City of New York and is active in Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Murolo and Chitty live in Yonkers, New York. Comics journalist \u003ci\u003eJoe Sacco\u003c\/i\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003ePalestine, War Junkie, and Safe Area Gorazde.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030732620016,"sku":"9781565847767","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781565847767_p0.jpg?v=1763767890","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781565847767","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}