Murolo, Priscilla,  1949- <br/><br/>
From the folks who brought you the weekend :  a short, illustrated history of labor in the United States / 
Priscilla Murolo and A.B. Chitty ; illustrations by Joe Sacco. 
 - New York :  New Press :  Distributed by W.W. Norton,  2001. 
 - xx, 364 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-344) and index. 
<br/><br/> Labor in colonial America : the bound and the free --  Legacies of conquest --  Indentured labor in British colonies --  Slavery --  Free labor --  Unruly labor --  The American Revolution --  From resistance to independence --  The people's war and the gentlemen's republic --  Republican legacies --  Slavery and freedom in the new republic --  "If you can't fight, kick" --  Wage workers and activism --  Solidarity and fragmentation --  Westward expansion and irrepressible conflict --  Civil War and Reconstruction --  The Civil War --  Southern Reconstruction and counterrevolution --  Labor movements and struggles --  Whose government? --  Labor versus monopoly in the Gilded Age --  Industrial capitalism : consolidation and crisis --  The working classes --  The Knights of Labor --  The American Federation of Labor --  Populism and racism --  Labor and empire --  Empire abroad, empire at home --  The labor movement in the Progressive era --  The Great War --  The war's aftermath --  America, Inc. --  The roaring twenties --  The labor movement of the twenties --  Early years of the Great Depression --  Labor rising --  Labor on the march --  Grassroots unionism --  The rise of the CIO --  Whose America? --  Hot war, Cold War --  America at war --  The postwar world --  "Big labor" --  The sixties --  In the spirit of Montgomery --  "Power to the people" --  The sixties in the workplace --  A house divided --  Hard times --  Lean and mean --  Race to the bottom --  Fighting back --  Brave new world --  Making change --  Steps forward, steps back --  Turn of the century.  Ch. 1.  Ch. 2.  Ch. 3.  Ch. 4.  Ch. 5.  Ch. 6.  Ch. 7.  Ch. 8.  Ch. 9.  Ch. 10.  Ch. 11.  Ch. 12. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1565844440 (hc.) 1565847768 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2001030978 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Labor--History.--United States<br/>Working class--History.--United States<br/>Labor movement--History.--United States<br/>Travail--Histoire.--???�tats-Unis<br/>Travailleurs--Histoire.--???�tats-Unis<br/>Mouvement ouvrier--Histoire.--???�tats-Unis
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD 8066  / .M86 2001