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Workers on the Waterfront - Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s (Paperback)
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Workers on the Waterfront - Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s (Paperback)
Series: Working Class in American History
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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.
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