Organizing the Shipyards
Subtitle: Union Strategy in Three Northeast Ports, 1933-1945 (ILR Press Books)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: April 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780801427343
Subjects: Economic history; Shipping industries; Trade unions; United States; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Second World War, 1939-1945; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; United States - 20th Century/Depression; Ship Design And Construction; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Organizing; Business/Economics; USA; Labor & Industrial Relations - Unions; Employees; Shipbuilding industry; Ships & Shipbuilding - General; Case studies; History; Industrial Union of Marine and; Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America; Labor Unions; Northeastern States
First sentence: The New York Shipbuilding Corporation, located in Camden, New Jersey, was at the heart of the United States naval construction program and military-industrial complex for over half a century.