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

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, event...