Author: Silas Blake AxtellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant mariners
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
A Symposium on Andrew Furuseth
Author: Silas Blake AxtellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant mariners
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Charges Against Members of the House and Lobby Activities of the National Association of Manufacturers of the United States and Others
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Lobby InvestigationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lobbying
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
The Way of the Ship
Author: Alex RolandPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470136006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
"The Way of the Ship offers a global perspective and considers both oceanic shipping and domestics shipping along America's coasts and inland waterways, with explanations of the forces that influenced the way of the ship. The result is an eye-opening, authoritative look at American maritime history and the ways it helped shape the nation's history."--BOOK JACKET.
‘Eastland’
Author: George W. HiltonPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804728010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
An account of the 1915 capsizing of the steamer Eastland in the Chicago River, an accident that killed more than eight hundred people, details the role of safety measures instituted after the sinking of the Titantic and examines the civil and criminal court proceedings which followed it.
Workers on the Waterfront
Author: Bruce NelsonPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252061448
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
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.
On the Waves of Empire
Author: William D. RiddellPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252054539
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
In the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, the United States’ acquisition of an overseas empire compelled the nation to reconsider the boundary between domestic and foreign--and between nation and empire. William D. Riddell looks at the experiences of merchant sailors and labor organizations to illuminate how domestic class conflict influenced America’s emerging imperial system. Maritime workers crossed ever-shifting boundaries that forced them to reckon with the collision of different labor systems and markets. Formed into labor organizations like the Sailor’s Union of the Pacific and the International Seaman’s Union of America, they contested the U.S.’s relationship to its empire while capitalists in the shipping industry sought to impose their own ideas. Sophisticated and innovative, On the Waves of Empire reveals how maritime labor and shipping capital stitched together, tore apart, and re-stitched the seams of empire.
Protokoll Der ... Jahres-convention Der American Federation of Labor
Author: American Federation of LaborPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
Book Description
Report of Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the American Federation of Labor
Author: American Federation of Labor. ConventionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor movement
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
The Promise of America
Author: Odd Sverre LovollPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452903736
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
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