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Title:

Waterfront workers : new perspectives on race and class / edited by Calvin Winslow.

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

c1998

Description:

viii, 204 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Stevedores--United States--History.
Afro-American stevedores--United States--History.
Trade-unions--History.--United States--History.
Strikes and lockouts--History.--United States--History.

Other Authors:

Winslow, Calvin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Biracial waterfront unionism in the age of segregation / Eric Arnesen -- "Men of the lumber camps come to town": New York longshoremen in the strike of 1907 / Calvin Winslow -- Radical possibilities? the rise and fall of wobbly unionism on the Philadelphia docks / Howard Kimeldorf -- "All I got's a hook": New York longshoremen and the 1948 dock strike / Colin Davis -- The "lords of the docks" reconsidered: race relations among the West Coast longshoremen, 1933-61 / Bruce Nelson.

Series:

The Working class in American history

ISBN:

9780252023927 (acid-free paper)
0252023927 (acid-free paper)
9780252066917 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
025206691X (pbk. : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)37451861

LCCN:

97033754

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)