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Release : 1985
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Book Synopsis Race, labor and unionism: New Orleans dockworkers, 1900-1910 by :
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Author : Daniel Rosenberg
Release : 1988-01-01
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis New Orleans Dockworkers by : Daniel Rosenberg
Download or read book New Orleans Dockworkers written by Daniel Rosenberg. This book was released on 1988-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the conditions which led to a remarkable instance of interracial solidarity known as "half and half," an expression used to identify the cooperation and cohesion among 10,000 Black and white dockworkers during the early twentieth century. Through interracial agreements which divided work and union leadership equally between Blacks and whites, dockworkers reduced the workload and pace imposed by shipping firms, and formed the basis for the general dock strike of 1907, described as "one of the most stirring manifestations of labor solidarity in American history." Rosenberg explores the phenomenon of "half and half" within the context of progressive segregation, as employers encouraged competition between and division of the races. Rosenberg also probes the nature of longshore work, dockworkers' views of Jim Crow, and industrial unionist trends, as well as the conclusions drawn by dockers after the levee race riots of the 1890s--"the working of the white and negro races on terms of equality has been the fruitful source of most of the trouble on the New Orleans levee."
Author : Daniel Rosenberg
Release : 1985
Genre : New Orleans (La.)
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Book Synopsis Race, Labor and Unionism by : Daniel Rosenberg
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Author : Eric Arnesen
Release : 1994
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Waterfront Workers of New Orleans by : Eric Arnesen
Download or read book Waterfront Workers of New Orleans written by Eric Arnesen. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the nineteenth century, American and foreign travelers often found New Orleans a delightful, exotic stop on their journeys; few failed to marvel at the riverfront, the center of the city's economic activity. . . . But absent from the tourism industry's historical recollection is any reference to the immigrants or black migrants and their children who constituted the army of laborers along the riverfront and provided the essential human power to keep the cotton, sugar, and other goods flowing. . . . In examining one diverse group of workers--the 10,000 to 15,000 cotton screwmen, longshoremen, cotton and round freight teamsters, cotton yardmen, railroad freight handlers, and Mississippi River roustabouts--this book focuses primarily on the workplace and the labor movement that emerged along the waterfront."--From the preface
Author : Richard Hynson Loftin
Release : 1969
Genre : Stevedores
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Book Synopsis The New Orleans Longshoremen, 1920-1940 by : Richard Hynson Loftin
Download or read book The New Orleans Longshoremen, 1920-1940 written by Richard Hynson Loftin. This book was released on 1969. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
