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

Working the Waterfront : : The Ups and Downs of a Rebel Longshoreman / / Gilbert Mers.

"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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
VerfasserIn:
Mers, Gilbert,
MitwirkendeR:
Green, George N.,
Nelson, Eugene,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2014]
©1988
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (308 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • Gilbert Mers: An Appreciation
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. The Docks of Corpus Christi, 1929
  • 2. Si Borison and Union Politics
  • 3. Rising Militancy
  • 4. The Great Longshoremen's Strike, 1935
  • 5. Dissenters Organize: The Maritime Federation of the Gulf Coast
  • 6. Turmoil among the Seamen
  • 7. Organizing Days in the South and West
  • 8. The War Years and Union Growth
  • 9. Labor on the Defensive
  • Afterword
  • Index

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