A revelatory look at a momentous undertaking-from the workers'
point of view
The Panama Canal has long been celebrated as a triumph of American
engineering and ingenuity. In "The Canal Builders," Julie Greene
reveals that this emphasis has obscured a far more remarkable
element of the historic enterprise: the tens of thousands of
workingmen and workingwomen who traveled from all around the world
to build it. Greene looks past the mythology surrounding the canal
to expose the difficult working conditions and discriminatory
policies involved in its construction. Drawing extensively on
letters, memoirs, and government documents, the book chronicles
both the struggles and the triumphs of the workers and their
fami-lies. Prodigiously researched and vividly told, "The Canal
Builders" explores the human dimensions of one of the world's
greatest labor mobilizations, and reveals how it launched America's
twentieth-century empire.
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