Waterfront Workers : New Perspectives on Race and Class
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Working Class in American History
ISBN-10
025206691X
ISBN-13
9780252066917
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Imprint
University of Illinois Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 1st, 1998
Print length
216 Pages
Weight
328 grams
Dimensions
15.40 x 22.80 x 2.60 cms
Product Classification:
History of the AmericasIndustrial relations
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Few work settings compete with the waterfront for a long, rich history of multi-ethnic and multiracial interaction. Irish dockers from Chelsea to Ashtabula to Tacoma labored side-by-side with African Americans, Poles, Germans, Scandinavians, and Italians. Eastern Europeans worked with the Irish and black workers in Philadelphia. Farther south, African Americans were the majority on the Baltimore waterfront in the 1930s. On the Pacific Coast, where laws excluded Chinese workers and African Americans remained relatively few in number until World War II, white dockers and longshoremen dominated. In Waterfront Workers, five scholars explore the complex relationships involved in this intersection of race, class, and ethnicity. Contributors: Eric Arneson, Colin Davis, Howard Kimeldorf, Bruce Nelson, and Calvin Winslow.
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