Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s (1988)

by Bruce Nelson

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"A rich, elegantly written and powerfully argued history of maritime workers, unionism and radicalism on the Pacific Coast. . . . A highly readable and exciting book, it is a welcome contribution to our understanding not only of long-ignored maritime workers but of the labor movement of the 1930s and the Communist Party as well." -- Labor History.… (more)

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"A rich, elegantly written and powerfully argued history of maritime workers, unionism and radicalism on the Pacific Coast. . . . A highly readable and exciting book, it is a welcome contribution to our understanding not only of long-ignored maritime workers but of the labor movement of the 1930s and the Communist Party as well." -- Labor History.

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