{"product_id":"9781620974483","title":"From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: An Illustrated History of Labor in the United States","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn updated edition of “an evergreen . . . comparable to Howard Zinn’s award–winning \u003cem\u003eA People’s History of the United States\u003c\/em\u003e” (\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eHailed as a work of “impressive even-handedness and analytic acuity” (\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e, starred review), \u003cem\u003eFrom the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend\u003c\/em\u003e 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” (\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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—\u003cem\u003eFrom the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend\u003c\/em\u003e will remain the standard, “comprehensive history of American labor” (\u003cem\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031759077616,"sku":"9781620974483","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781620974483_p0.jpg?v=1763855609","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781620974483","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}