From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (764 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1565847768 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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, This is the first comprehensive look at American history through the prism of working people. of illustrations.
labor from precolonial times to the late 1960s, with two short chapters on the last few decades. Brandishing little-known facts, the authors reshape common views of social history. Remarkably, for instance, hundreds of black indentured servants came to the colonies fromAfricain the 1600s, and throughout the century, as the "peculiar institution" was legalized, these free men and women were forced into slavery. history and labor literature could become an evergreen paperback comparable to Howard Zinn's award-winning A People's History of the United States.Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.. Murolo (who te
"Questionable Scholarship" according to Steve Groh. I was excited to purchase this book and was eager to get a strong historical overview of history of labor in the United States. The book is quite handsome looking, and the writing style is clear and engaging. However, I was no further than page 2 before I started getting nervous about the academic integrity of the work. The first statement that raised warning flags for me was "the Arawak population had dwindled from about ten million to a few thousand at best (p.2)" I am not a . J. Grattan said Working class life is a constant struggle. Clearly the theme for this book is that life has been and continues to be a struggle for working people in the United States. The upper class, whether the pre-Revolutionary landed aristocracy or the more recent industrial or post-industrial capitalistic class, through its power, privilege, and wealth, has largely dominated and controlled the working class irrespective of wage or slave labor. The democratic promise of the nation's founding has taken a beating in this arrangement. Lynn Hill said Five Stars. Great book