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Waterfront Revolts - New York and London Dockworkers, 1946-61 (Hardcover, New)
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Waterfront Revolts - New York and London Dockworkers, 1946-61 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Working Class in American History
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During the decade that followed the end of World War II, American
and English dockworkers undertook a series of militant revolts
against their employers, their governments, and even their union
leaderships. In this in-depth comparative study. Colin J. Davis
draws on a wide range of sources to explore the upheavals on both
sides of the Atlantic. Davis examines the dynamics of work and work
stoppage along the two pivotal waterfronts, showing how issues of
race, organized crime, union affiliation, working conditions, and
cold war politics shaped waterfront uprisings and the state's
response to them. He explores other key differences between
American and British labor, such as the cultural forces that led to
the emergence of rank-and-file dockworkers' movements, degree of
governmental oversight, methods of obtaining work, and specifics of
ethnic and racial identification. Addressing questions of why
dockworkers were such influential forces in the postwar industrial
arena, Waterfront Revolts reveals how workers and trade unions
directly influenced cold war politics, the economy, and
culture--even across national borders.
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