Waterfront Workers: New Perspectives on Race and Class

(Part of the The Working Class in American History Series)

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Few work settings compete with the waterfront for a long, rich history of multi-ethnic and multiracial interaction. Irish dockers from Chelsea to Ashtabula to Tacoma labored side-by-side with African Americans, Poles, Germans, Scandinavians, and Italians. Eastern Europeans worked with the Irish and black workers in Philadelphia. Farther south, African Americans were the majority on the Baltimore waterfront in the 1930s. On the Pacific Coast, where...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:025206691X

ISBN13:9780252066917

Release Date:April 1998

Publisher:University of Illinois Press

Length:216 Pages

Weight:0.72 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Ethnic Studies Minority Studies Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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Waterfront Workers: New Perspectives on Race and Class

(Part of the The Working Class in American History Series)

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