Waterfront Workers
Subtitle: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON RACE AND CLASS (Working Class in American History)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: April 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780252066917
Subjects: American history; Industrial relations; Political Science; Ethnic Issues; History: American; USA; Ethnic Studies - General; Labor & Industrial Relations - Unions; Minority Studies - Race Relations; Business & Economics / Labor; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; African American stevedores; History; Labor unions; Stevedores; United States
First sentence: African American labor leader Thomas Woodland spoke passionately to the issue of race relations in Gulf Coast longshore unions at the biannual convention of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) in 1919.