From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend

A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States

A.B. Chitty

Illustrations by Joe Sacco

paperback

$17.95

Hailed in a starred Publishers Weekly review as a work of “impressive even-handedness and analytic acuity . . .  that gracefully handles a broad range of subject matter,” From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend 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” (Library Journal).

From 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 Booklist, which adds that “thirty pages of stirring drawings by ‘comic journalist’ Joe Sacco add an unusual dimension to the book.”

Priscilla Murolo teaches American history and directs the M.A. program in Women’s History at Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of The Common Ground of Womanhood. A.B. Chitty 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 Joe Sacco is the author of Palestine, War Junkie, and Safe Area Gorazde.