From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend

Hailed in a starred Publishers Weekly review as a work of "e;impressive even-handedness and analytic acuity . . . that gracefully handles a broad range of subject matter,"e; 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 "e;puts a human face on the people, places, events, and social conditions that have shaped the evolution of organized labor"e; (Library Journal).From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend also "e;thoroughly includes the contributions of women, Native Americans, African Americans, immigrants, and minorities, and considers events often ignored in other histories,"e; writes Booklist, which adds that "e;thirty pages of stirring drawings by comic journalist Joe Sacco add an unusual dimension to the book."e;