Author: Bruce Nelson
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780252061448
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With working lives characterized by exploitation and rootlessness, merchant seamen were isolated from mainstream life. Yet their contacts with workers in port cities around the world imbued them with a sense of internationalism. These factors contributed to a subculture that encouraged militancy, spontaneous radicalism, and a syndicalist mood. Bruce Nelson's award-winning book examines the insurgent activity and consciousness of maritime workers during the 1930s. As he shows, merchant seamen and longshoremen on the Pacific Coast made major institutional gains, sustained a lengthy period of activity, and expanded their working-class consciousness. Nelson examines the two major strikes that convulsed the region and caused observers to state that day-to-day labor relations resembled guerilla warfare. He also looks at related activity, from increasing political activism to stoppages to defend laborers from penalties, refusals to load cargos for Mussolini's war in Ethiopia, and forced boardings of German vessels to tear down the swastika.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 1130
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Published: 1959
Total Pages: 1920
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ann L. Buttenwieser
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 1999-08-01
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780815628019
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A history of Manhattan from the 17th century to the present. The second edition of this text includes two additional chapters that encompass the changes that have taken place in the areas of restoration, legislation, and within the new movements in environmental consciousness during the 1990s.