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Priscilla Murolo and A.B. Chitty ; illustrations by Joe SaccoPublication Details
BookNew Press2001Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HD8066 .M86 2001 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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A definitive new work of American history, From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend also brings labor history to life with thirty pages of dramatic “cartoon narratives”?by internationally acclaimed artist Joe Sacco?that highlight key moments and figures throughout American history. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Notes
- "From the folks Who Brought You the Weekend is an history of labor in the United States, capturing the full range of working people’s struggles, from indentured servants and slaves in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake to high-tech workers in contemporary Silicon Valley."–BOOK JACKET
Contents
- Ch. 1. Labor in Colonial America: The Bound and the Free - - Ch. 2. The American Revolution
- Ch. 3. Slavery and Freedom in the New Republic
- Ch. 4. Civil War and Reconstruction
- Ch. 5. Labor Versus Monopoly in the Gilded Age
- Ch. 6. Labor and Empire
- Ch. 7. America, Inc
- Ch. 8. Labor on the March
- Ch. 9. Hot War, Cold War
- Ch. 10. The Sixties
- Ch. 11. Hard Times
- Ch. 12. Brave New World
ISBN
- 1565844440
- 9781565844445
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