Waterfront Workers
Subtitle: New Perspectives on Race and Class (Working Class in American History)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: May 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780252023927
Subjects: Black studies; Employment & unemployment; Trade unions; Employment Of Blacks; Political Science; Ethnic Issues; History: American; 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.