Waterfront Workers: New Perspectives On Race And Class (working Class In American History)

Few Work Settings Can Compete With The Waterfront For A Long, Rich History Of Multi-ethnic And Multiracial Interaction. There Were Irish Dockers From Chelsea To Ashtabula To Tacoma; African Americans, Poles, Germans, Scandinavians, And Italians Joined The Irish On New York's Docks; Eastern Europeans Worked With The Irish And Blacks In Philadelphia, And Farther South, African Americans Were The Majority On The Baltimore Waterfront In The 1930s. On The Pacific Coast, Where The Chinese Were Excluded And African Americans Were Relatively Scarce Until World War Ii, Waterfront Workers Were Mostly White. In Waterfront Workers, Five Scholars Explore The Complex Relationships Involved In This Intersection Of Race, Class, And Ethnicity. 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. Edited By Calvin Winslow. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.