Workers on the Waterfront
Subtitle: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s (Working Class in American History)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: May 1, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780252061448
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Shipping industries; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Second World War, 1939-1945; Politics / Current Events; History: American; USA; General; Labor; Business & Economics / Labor; 20th century; History; Labor unions; Merchant marine; Merchant mariners; Stevedores; Strikes and lockouts; United States
First sentence: The mature working class is a phenomenon of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.