Author: Stephen Schwartz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000674894
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
In 1934, the Pacific Coast was shaken by a massive strike of waterfront workers- on the docks and the ships. In this mighty struggle, the Sailor’s Union of the Pacific, quiescent since it’s defeat in the period after the first World War was reborn. Fighting on San Francisco’s Embarcadero led to the stationing of National Guard troops on the ‘front’. This book looks at the Union from 1885 to 1985.
Brotherhood of the Sea
Author: Stephen Schwartz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000674894
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
In 1934, the Pacific Coast was shaken by a massive strike of waterfront workers- on the docks and the ships. In this mighty struggle, the Sailor’s Union of the Pacific, quiescent since it’s defeat in the period after the first World War was reborn. Fighting on San Francisco’s Embarcadero led to the stationing of National Guard troops on the ‘front’. This book looks at the Union from 1885 to 1985.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000674894
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
In 1934, the Pacific Coast was shaken by a massive strike of waterfront workers- on the docks and the ships. In this mighty struggle, the Sailor’s Union of the Pacific, quiescent since it’s defeat in the period after the first World War was reborn. Fighting on San Francisco’s Embarcadero led to the stationing of National Guard troops on the ‘front’. This book looks at the Union from 1885 to 1985.
Sweatshops at Sea
Author: Leon Fink
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807834505
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
"Leon Fink, one of the world's best labor historians, has gone to sea and returned with a powerful yarn about the seafaring workers who built the global economy. Vividly told the breathtaking in scope, Sweatshops at Sea will be remembered as one of the most important histories of our time." Marcus Rediker, author The Slave Ship: A Human History. "Sweatshops at Sea is a masterful history that illuminates the issues of citizenship in a world of porous borders for a workforce that has always been both multinational and multiracial. Leon Fink's thoroughly researched, fascinating book provides readers with a fresh and invigorating perspective on globalization."---Nelson Lichtenstein, director, Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807834505
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
"Leon Fink, one of the world's best labor historians, has gone to sea and returned with a powerful yarn about the seafaring workers who built the global economy. Vividly told the breathtaking in scope, Sweatshops at Sea will be remembered as one of the most important histories of our time." Marcus Rediker, author The Slave Ship: A Human History. "Sweatshops at Sea is a masterful history that illuminates the issues of citizenship in a world of porous borders for a workforce that has always been both multinational and multiracial. Leon Fink's thoroughly researched, fascinating book provides readers with a fresh and invigorating perspective on globalization."---Nelson Lichtenstein, director, Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2630
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2630
Book Description
A Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Merchant Marine and Shipping Industry
Author: Rene De La Pedraja
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313035024
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 769
Book Description
A foremost authority has written the first comprehensive reference about the U.S. Merchant Marine and American shipping from the introduction of steamships to today's diesel containerships--showing the impact of politics, economics, and technology on maritime history during the last two centuries. Over 500 entries describe people, private companies, business and labor groups, engineering and technological developments, government agencies, terms, key laws, landmark cases, issues, events, and ships of note. Short lists of references for further reading accompany these entries. Appendices include a chronology, diagrams of government organizations, and lists of business and labor groups by founding dates. An unusually extensive index lends itself to the varying research interests of students, teachers, and professionals in maritime and economic history, business-labor-government relations, and military studies.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313035024
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 769
Book Description
A foremost authority has written the first comprehensive reference about the U.S. Merchant Marine and American shipping from the introduction of steamships to today's diesel containerships--showing the impact of politics, economics, and technology on maritime history during the last two centuries. Over 500 entries describe people, private companies, business and labor groups, engineering and technological developments, government agencies, terms, key laws, landmark cases, issues, events, and ships of note. Short lists of references for further reading accompany these entries. Appendices include a chronology, diagrams of government organizations, and lists of business and labor groups by founding dates. An unusually extensive index lends itself to the varying research interests of students, teachers, and professionals in maritime and economic history, business-labor-government relations, and military studies.
Golden Dreams
Author: Kevin Starr
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195153774
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
Explores the social, cultural, and economic history of California from 1950 through 1963, and discusses such topics as demography, water, freeways, development in the major cities and suburban areas, race relations, and more.
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195153774
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
Explores the social, cultural, and economic history of California from 1950 through 1963, and discusses such topics as demography, water, freeways, development in the major cities and suburban areas, race relations, and more.
Labor's Cold War
Author: Shelton Stromquist
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252074696
Category : Anti-communist movements
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
How the Cold War affected local-level union politics
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252074696
Category : Anti-communist movements
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
How the Cold War affected local-level union politics
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1576
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1576
Book Description
Workers on the Waterfront
Author: Bruce Nelson
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Transatlantic Anarchism during the Spanish Civil War and Revolution, 1936-1939
Author: Morris Brodie
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000051528
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Between 1936 and 1939, the Spanish Civil War showcased anarchism to the world. News of the revolution in Spain energised a moribund international anarchist movement, and activists from across the globe flocked to Spain to fight against fascism and build the revolution behind the front lines. Those that stayed at home set up groups and newspapers to send money, weapons and solidarity to their Spanish comrades. This book charts this little-known phenomenon through a transnational case study of anarchists from Britain, Ireland and the United States, using a thematic approach to place their efforts in the wider context of the civil war, the anarchist movement and the international left.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000051528
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Between 1936 and 1939, the Spanish Civil War showcased anarchism to the world. News of the revolution in Spain energised a moribund international anarchist movement, and activists from across the globe flocked to Spain to fight against fascism and build the revolution behind the front lines. Those that stayed at home set up groups and newspapers to send money, weapons and solidarity to their Spanish comrades. This book charts this little-known phenomenon through a transnational case study of anarchists from Britain, Ireland and the United States, using a thematic approach to place their efforts in the wider context of the civil war, the anarchist movement and the international left.
Labor-management Problems of the American Merchant Marine
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant mariners
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant mariners
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
Book Description