Working the Waterfront: The Ups and Downs of a Rebel Longshoreman

by Gilbert Mers

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"Somebody said, 'History is written by the winners. The losers have nothing to say.' This book is by one of the losers, a bit player, not the star of the drama." So begins Gilbert Mers in these personal recollections of forty-two years on the Texas waterfront as longshoreman and radical union activist. But far from having "nothing to say," Mers reveals himself as a thoughtful philosopher of democratic ideals and eloquent agitator for union reform...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0292722540

ISBN13:9780292722545

Release Date:September 1988

Publisher:University of Texas Press

Length:308 Pages

Weight:1.01 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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