From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States

Synopsis

A Comprehensive Look At The History Of The United States Through The Prism Of Working People. In This Fully Updated New Edition, The Authors Have Added A Wealth Of Fresh Analysis Of Labor's Role In American Life, And Three Entirely New Chapters On Global Labor Developments, Worker Activism In Immigrant Communities, And The 2016 Election And Unions' Relationships To Trump. -- Adapted From Back Cover. Preface To The Revised Edition -- Foreword And Acknowledgments From The First Edition -- Labor In Colonial America : The Bound And The Free -- The American Revolution -- Slavery And Freedom In The New Republic -- Civil War And Reconstruction -- Labor Versus Monopoly In The Gilded Age -- Labor And Empire -- America, Inc. -- Labor On The March -- Hot War, Cold War -- The Sixties -- Hard Times -- One Step Forward, Two Steps Back -- Workers Of The World -- Rising Tide -- Tipping Points. Priscilla Murolo And A.b. Chitty ; Illustrations By Joe Sacco. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 375-428) And Index.