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Author | : Tom Bethell |
Publisher | : Hoover Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2013-09-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0817914161 |
Drawn from Eric Hoffer's private papers as well as interviews with those who knew him, this detailed biography paints a picture of a truly original American thinker and writer. Author Tom Bethell interviewed Hoffer in the years just before his death, and his meticulous accounts of those meetings offer new insights into the man known as the "Longshoreman Philosopher."
Author | : Charles Brinton Barnes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Labor |
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Author | : Jim Lynch |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2014-07-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 149174118X |
These three, inter-related stories describe the lives of three generations of the McGowan family and their personal battles to make a living by working on the Boston waterfront. The common thread that runs through them is the challenges presented by the shape-up or pick-up system, a procedure that was archaic and rife with favoritism and was the sole determining factor whether you received a salary that day. At a young age, Jim McGowan goes to work as a longshoreman not knowing one end of a ship from the other. Fighting alcoholism, bad companions and family hardship, he strives to make a decent living for his family. Jim's uncle Owen is an immigrant from Ireland in 1920 who finds work on the docks, one of the few jobs available to him. Working alongside veteran longshoremen, he decides to become part of the political establishment in order to improve the working conditions on the docks. Owen's cousin Mike is a seasoned dock worker, content with his life but wanting something better for his children. The Longshoremen details the working conditions and challenges of working on the Boston waterfront and is based on the real-life experiences of longshoreman, author Jim Lynch.
Author | : Marc Zappulla |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-10-12 |
Genre | : Boston (Mass.) |
ISBN | : 9781535367530 |
Anthony "Tony" Costa grew up admiring his Uncle Dom-a made member of the New England mafia- so when Dom asks him to collect gambling debts from around the neighborhood, Tony is happy to help. Even after his uncle gets thrown in jail, he does his nephew a good turn from behind bars, getting him a job as a longshoreman on the Boston waterfront. The year is 1958, and Tony is only eighteen. His new job quickly teaches him what it will take to survive on the docks. Tony and his violent new friend Butchie Shea soon carve out a life for themselves on the pier. But when Butchie convinces him to take desperate, brutal action against an adversary, Tony realizes just how badly his criminal lifestyle has tainted him. He vows to go straight and focus on his wife and family-but old habits die hard, and the opportunity of a lifetime yanks Tony back in. The job could lead to big rewards, but Tony might not see just how risky it is until it's too late.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1935 |
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Author | : Bruce Nelson |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780252061448 |
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 Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Compensation, Health, and Safety |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 972 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Stevedores |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Education and Labor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1956 |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Compensation, Health, and Safety |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 964 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Stevedores |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Employers' liability |
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