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

(Paperback)

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Strong sales for original editions: Over 10K copies combined.

Reputation: Viewed as the standard history of labor in the US; new edition brings the story fully up to date with new statistics and two completely new chapters.

Timing: The new labor and anti-Trump movements make this newly relevant.

Artwork: Since original edition published, Joe Sacco has achieved national recognition and acclaim for his comics journalism; book contains three full inserts telling the story of labor in the US.

Outstanding review attention: Original edition garnered exceptionally strong, positive coverage in the Washington Post and elsewhere; and a starred review in Publisher Weekly that compared it to Howard Zinns bestseller.

Blurbs/endorsements: New edition will include blurbs from prominent labor leaders, historians, and progressives including Nelson Lichtenstein, Jefferson Cowie, Laura Flanders, David Rolf, AI-jen Poo, and others.

Op-ed opportunities: Author Murolo, one of nations leading labor historians, is preparing a series of op-ed placements in conjunction with publication, closely tracking the news around the labor movement, jobs, and manufacturing under Trump.

Outreach to labor movement: SEIU and AFSCME will promote book to extensive email lists and via national newsletters.

Reviews

Praise for the first edition:
A comprehensive history of American labor. . . . Enlivened and diverted by the humorous cartoon narratives of Joe Sacco.
The Washington Post

Thoroughly includes the contributions of women, Native Americans, African Americans, immigrants, and minorities, and considers events often ignored in other histories.
Booklist

An evergreen comparable to Howard Zinn's award-winning A People's History of the United States.
Publishers Weekly

A marvelously informed, carefully crafted, far-ranging history of working people.
Noam Chomsky

Author Bio

Priscilla Murolo teaches American history at Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in Yonkers, New York. Comics journalist Joe Sacco is the author of Palestine, Safe Area Gorade, and The Great War. He lives in Portland, Oregon. A.B. Chitty works as a librarian systems officer at Queens College. He lives in Yonkers, New York.