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