Working on the dock of the bay : labor and enterprise in an antebellum Southern port
Michael D. Thompson
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[2015]
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| Authors: | Thompson, Michael D. |
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Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press |
| Subject: | Hafenwirtschaft | Port management | Hafen | Port | Arbeitsbeziehungen | Employment relations | Hafenarbeiter | Dock workers |
| Description of contents: |
An examination of the role and struggles of enslaved dock workers shortly after emancipation
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| Extent: | Online-Ressource |
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| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One. "Using violent exercise in warm weather": The Waterfront Labor Experience and Environment; Two. "This very troublesome business": Actions, Reactions, and the Pursuit of Mastery; Three. "Improper assemblies & conspiracies": The Advantageous Enticements of Wharf Labor; Four. "Laborers from abroad have come to take their places": The Racial and Ethnic Transformation of the Waterfront Workforce Five. "The unacclimated stranger should be positively prohibited": Comparative Disease Susceptibility and Waterfront Labor CompetitionPostscript; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61117-475-5 ; 1-61117-475-9 ; 1-61117-474-0 ; 978-1-61117-475-5 ; 978-1-61117-474-8 |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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