{"product_id":"9781595588562","title":"From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States","description":"Hailed in a starred \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e review as a work of \"impressive even-handedness and analytic acuity . . . that gracefully handles a broad range of subject matter,\" \u003cem\u003eFrom the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend\u003c\/em\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\" (\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the \u003cem\u003eFolks Who Brought You the Weekend\u003c\/em\u003e also \"thoroughly includes the contributions of women, Native Americans, African Americans, immigrants, and minorities, and considers events often ignored in other histories,\" writes \u003cem\u003eBooklist,\u003c\/em\u003e which adds that \"thirty pages of stirring drawings by ‘comic journalist’ Joe Sacco add an unusual dimension to the book.\"","brand":"New Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174936527088,"sku":"9781595588562","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781595588562_p0.jpg?v=1763815496","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781595588562","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}