Shape-up and hiring hall
Subtitle: a comparison of hiring methods and labor relations on the New York and Seattle water fronts.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1955
Place of publication: Berkeley
Subjects: Stevedores -- New York (State) -- New York.; Stevedores -- Washington (State) -- Seattle.; Hiring halls.
First sentence: The Port of New York is preëminent among United States harbors, both for its physical size and for the amount of crime, graft, and political corruption which have infested its piers.