Title: On the Irish waterfront
Subtitle: the crusader, the movie, and the soul of the port of New York
First published: 2009
Description: "Site of the world's busiest and most lucrative harbor throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the Port of New York was also the historic preserve of Irish American gangsters, politicians, longshoremen's union leaders, and powerful Roman Catholic pastors. This is the demimonde depicted to stunning effect in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954) and into which James T. Fisher takes readers in this remarkable and engaging historical account of the classic film's backstory."--Inside jacket.
Subjects: Irish Americans, Missions, Corrupt practices, Stevedores, On the waterfront (Motion picture), Church work with the working class, Employment, Catholic Church, Port districts, Labor & Industrial Relations, Labor, POLITICAL SCIENCE, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, HISTORY, Catholic church, missions, Harbors, united states, Working class, united states
Places: Hudson River Region (N.Y. and N.J.)
LC classification: HD8039.L82 F57 2009