Reds or Rackets?: The Making of Radical and Conservative Unions on the Waterfront
"Goes beyond the sociology-meets-history genre of the last  decade and  brings the study of twentieth century working-class history to an  exciting new  threshold."  --Jerry Lembcke,International Labor and Working Class  History"Kimeldorf writes in an accessible, historically grounded  manner. . . .  His intelligent use of the comparative approach offers fresh insights  into what  has made left-wing unionism succeed, or falter, in the twentieth-century  United  States."  --Daniel Lewin, The Journal of American History"Kimeldorf's historical narrative manages to capture the tragedy  and  romance of dock labor on our two principal coasts at the same time as it  provides an impressive analysis of the events. . . . An excellent  contribution  to our literature on labor history."  --Phil F. Carspecken, Social Science  Quarterly