Organizing the shipyards
Subtitle: union strategy in three Northeast ports, 1933-1945
By: David Palmer.
Publisher: ILR Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America -- History.; Shipbuilding industry -- Employees -- Labor unions -- Northeastern States -- History.; Labor unions -- Organizing -- United States -- Case studies.
Description: David Palmer documents the history of union organizing at three of America's largest private shipyards. These shipbuilding complexes had tremendous strategic importance because of their locations: New York Shipbuilding was located in the port of Philadelphia, Bethlehem Fore River Shipyard in the port of Boston, and Federal Shipbuilding in the port of New York. Palmer's account covers the period from the Great Depression and the beginning of the New Deal to the end of World War II.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.