Waterfront Workers

Author : Bruce Nelson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0252061446

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Workers on the Waterfront by Bruce Nelson Pdf

With working lives characterized by exploitation and rootlessness, merchant seamen were isolated from mainstream life. Yet their contacts with workers in port cities around the world imbued them with a sense of internationalism. These factors contributed to a subculture that encouraged militancy, spontaneous radicalism, and a syndicalist mood. Bruce Nelson's award-winning book examines the insurgent activity and consciousness of maritime workers during the 1930s. As he shows, merchant seamen and longshoremen on the Pacific Coast made major institutional gains, sustained a lengthy period of activity, and expanded their working-class consciousness. Nelson examines the two major strikes that convulsed the region and caused observers to state that day-to-day labor relations resembled guerilla warfare. He also looks at related activity, from increasing political activism to stoppages to defend laborers from penalties, refusals to load cargos for Mussolini's war in Ethiopia, and forced boardings of German vessels to tear down the swastika.

Author : Calvin Winslow
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 025206691X

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Waterfront Workers by Calvin Winslow Pdf

Few work settings can compete with the waterfront for a long, rich history of multi-ethnic and multiracial interaction. Here, five scholars focus on the complex relationships involved in this intersection of race, class, and ethnicity. "Opens up some of the most significant questions in American labor and social history, including the struggle for control at the workplace and, even more important, the relationship between black and white workers and among various ethnic groups on the docks." -- David Brundage, author of The Making of Western Labor Radicalism: Denver's Organized Workers, 1878-1905 A volume in the series The Working Class in American History, edited by David Brody, Alice Kessler-Harris, David Montgomery, and Sean Wilentz

Author : Eric Arnesen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0252063775

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Waterfront Workers of New Orleans by Eric Arnesen Pdf

"During the nineteenth century, American and foreign travelers often found New Orleans a delightful, exotic stop on their journeys; few failed to marvel at the riverfront, the center of the city's economic activity. . . . But absent from the tourism industry's historical recollection is any reference to the immigrants or black migrants and their children who constituted the army of laborers along the riverfront and provided the essential human power to keep the cotton, sugar, and other goods flowing. . . . In examining one diverse group of workers--the 10,000 to 15,000 cotton screwmen, longshoremen, cotton and round freight teamsters, cotton yardmen, railroad freight handlers, and Mississippi River roustabouts--this book focuses primarily on the workplace and the labor movement that emerged along the waterfront."--From the preface

Author : Ronald Magden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015024920087

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A History of Seattle Waterfront Workers, 1884-1934 by Ronald Magden Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Compensation, Health, and Safety
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 974 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Government publications
ISBN : LOC:00133609817

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Oversight Hearings on the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Compensation, Health, and Safety Pdf

Author : Duncan McNab
Publisher : Hachette Australia
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780733632662

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Waterfront by Duncan McNab Pdf

The colourful and exciting story of the larger-than-life characters who have populated Australia's docks, wharves and ports from the First Fleet to today - and the crime, violence and corruption that has always been present. Ever since the First Fleet dropped anchor, Australia's ports have been our opening to the world. They are also the breeding ground for many of Australia's most notorious criminals, and a magnet for local and overseas criminal syndicates. WATERFRONT is the story of the crimes, the politics, the characters and the corruption in our nation's ports. From the time of Phillip and Bligh to today, from the gold rushes to modern-day drug smuggling, a criminal element has always found ways to profit from the rise and dominance of waterfront unions. After a century of Royal Commissions, reports, denials and crackdowns, crime and wrongdoing in Australia's ports remains organised, entrenched and incredibly profitable. Investigative journalist and former police detective Duncan McNab lifts the lid on the intriguing and chequered history of Australia's waterfront.

Author : Victoria University of Wellington. Library
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0864730284

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A Finding List to the Papers of Jim Roberts by Victoria University of Wellington. Library Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Labor laws and legislation
ISBN : UIUC:30112104149577

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Monthly Labor Review by Anonim Pdf

Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.

Author : Cybèle Locke
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781927131398

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Workers in the Margins by Cybèle Locke Pdf

'Marginalised' workers of the late twentieth century were those last hired in times of plenty and first fired in times of recession. Often women, Maori, or people from the Pacifc, they were frequently unemployed, and marginalised within the union movement as well as the labour force. WORKERS IN THE MARGINS tells the story of these workers in the tumultuous years of post-war New Zealand. These were years characterised by massive changes in the workforce, as it expanded to accommodate a growing urban Maori population and an increasing desire for women to enter paid work. The world of trade unions and employment conflicts, such as the 1951 waterfront lockout, was vigorous and challenging. As free market policies deregulated the labour market and splintered the union movement toward the end of the century, Te Roopu Rawakore o Aotearoa, the national unemployed and beneficiaries' movement, gave a new voice to 'workers in the margins'. The people of this history come to life through oral histories - from the poet (and boilermaker) Hone Tuwhare building a palisade at Orakei through to activists Sue Bradford and Jane Stevens working with the unemployed in the 1980s and '90s. Their experiences speak to the lives of many workers of the early twenty-first century.

Author : New Zealand. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1078 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : New Zealand
ISBN : SRLF:A0001800473

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Parliamentary Debates by New Zealand. Parliament Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Colonial Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Grenada
ISBN : WISC:89017197799

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Grenada by Great Britain. Colonial Office Pdf

Author : Holger Weiss
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004463288

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A Global Radical Waterfront by Holger Weiss Pdf

This volume investigates the ambition of the Red International of Labour Unions to radicalize the global waterfront during the interwar period. The main vehicle was the International Propaganda Committee of Transport Workers, replaced in 1930 by the International of Seamen and Harbour Workers as well as their agitation and propaganda centres, the International Harbour Bureaus and the International Seamen’s Clubs. The book scrutinizes their solidarity campaigns in support of local and national strikes as well as on their agitation against discrimination, segregation and racism within the unions, their demands to organize non-white maritime transport workers, and their calls for engagement in anti-fascist, anti-war and anti-imperialist actions.

Author : Sarah Deutsch
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496228611

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Making a Modern U.S. West by Sarah Deutsch Pdf

Making a Modern U.S. West surveys the history of the U.S. West from 1898 to 1940, centering what is often relegated to the margins in histories of the region—the flows of people, capital, and ideas across borders.

Author : New Zealand. Dept. of Labour,New Zealand. Dept. of Labour and Employment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Labor
ISBN : UIUC:30112078141402

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Report of the Department of Labour and Employment for the Year Ended ... by New Zealand. Dept. of Labour,New Zealand. Dept. of Labour and Employment Pdf

Author : Peter Cole
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780252090851

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Wobblies on the Waterfront by Peter Cole Pdf

The rise and fall of America's first truly interracial labor union For almost a decade during the 1910s and 1920s, the Philadelphia waterfront was home to the most durable interracial, multiethnic union seen in the United States prior to the CIO era. For much of its time, Local 8 was majority black, always with a cadre of black leaders. The union also claimed immigrants from Eastern Europe, as well as many Irish Americans, who had a notorious reputation for racism. This important study is the first book-length examination of how Local 8, affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World, accomplished what no other did at the time. Peter Cole outlines the factors that were instrumental in Local 8's success, both ideological (the IWW's commitment to working-class solidarity) and pragmatic (racial divisions helped solidify employer dominance). He also shows how race was central not only to the rise but also to the decline of Local 8, as increasing racial tensions were manipulated by employers and federal agents bent on the union's destruction.