On the Global Waterfront
Subtitle: The Fight to Free the Charleston 5
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: January 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781583671634
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Political activism; Shipping industries; Trade unions; c 1990 to c 2000; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; South Carolina; Labor; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Nonfiction / Politics; Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations; General
Description: Tells the story of longshoremen in Charleston, South Carolina, who -- on the verge of a presidential election that would redefine American and global politics -- confronted attempts to wipe out their union, the state's most powerful black organization, ILA Local 1422.