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Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s
Bruce Nelson
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Description for Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s
Paperback. Series: The Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; KNGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 322 x 31. Weight in Grams: 552.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Series
The Working Class in American History
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252061448
SKU
V9780252061448
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About Bruce Nelson
Bruce Nelson is an emeritus professor in the Department of History at Dartmouth College.
Reviews for Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s
Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians, 1989. "A fascinating story that holds the reader's interest from beginning to end. It is well written and thoroughly researched, and makes a real contribution to American labor history."
Journal of Economic History "Nelson has, to my mind, written the definitive account of one of the ... Read more
Journal of Economic History "Nelson has, to my mind, written the definitive account of one of the ... Read more