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From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend by A.B. Chitty & Priscilla Murolo

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From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend

An Illustrated History of Labor in the United States

by A.B. Chitty & Priscilla Murolo

Narrator Holly Adams

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Length 23 hours 15 minutes

Language English

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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, events, and social conditions that have shaped the evolution of organized labor", enlivened by illustrations from the celebrated comics journalist Joe Sacco (Library Journal).

Now, the authors have added a wealth of fresh analysis of labor's role in American life, with new material on sex workers, disability issues, labor's relation to the global justice movement and the immigrants' rights movement, the 2005 split in the AFL-CIO and the movement civil wars that followed, and the crucial emergence of worker centers and their relationships to unions. With two entirely new chapters—one on global developments such as offshoring and a second on the 2016 election and unions' relationships to Trump—this is an "extraordinarily fine addition to US history [that] could become an evergreen . . . comparable to Howard Zinn's award-winning A People’s History of the United States" (Publishers Weekly).

History Politics & Economy Nonfiction Social Science

A. B. Chitty works as a librarian systems officer at Queens College. He lives in Yonkers, New York.

Priscilla Murolo teaches American history at Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in Yonkers, New York.

Holly Adams is a classically trained, award-winning actor and narrator who loves every single thing about stories and the beings that inhabit them. With her attention to tone and character integrity, Holly enjoys narrating pretty much anything, and specializes in action-adventure/fantasy, mysteries/thrillers, and the subtle comfort of self-help nonfiction. Holly's first language was Southern, after which her family moved around a lot, finally settling in rural New York. Combined with a love of languages and her professional training, these experiences gave her a range of regional Southern dialects and an excellent capacity for accent and dialect in general. When not behind a mic, Holly continues to perform on stage, in films, and with the circus, especially Red Nose.