Download or read book The Longshoremen written by Jim Lynch and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book New York Longshoremen written by William J. Mello and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superb history of labor on the East Coast waterfront that may be the best account we have, not only of the industry, but of any sector of labor relations. Mello combines a thoroughly researched discussion of the behavior of elites--employers, government, and union officials--with a story of the heroic resistance of rank-and-file dockers to the best laid plans of their adversaries.--Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center. There exists a hidden history of post-World War II New York and East Coast waterfront labor relations. During this era, dockworkers fought an ongoing battle against shipping companies, local police, federal and state political authorities, and their own corrupt union leadership. New York Longshoremen reveals how labor relations on the docks were driven from below by radical and reform rank-and-file movements led by communists, Catholics, and local union leaders. William Mello uncovers this little-known history that depicts the impact of state and local politics and political institutions on the labor movement in postwar America. He looks at power and collective action, as well as institutional and social movements, specifically analyzing the intersection of labor and its impact on political development. Interviews, meticulous examinations of newspaper accounts, official reports, rank-and-file newsletters, and oral histories establish the contours of Mello's work. This rich historical account illustrates how ordinary workers defied the combined powers of elites and sporadically imposed their will on labor relations.
Download or read book Workers on the Waterfront written by Bruce Nelson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Eric Hoffer written by Tom Bethell and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."
Download or read book In the Interest of Others written by John S. Ahlquist and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Interest of Others develops a new theory of organizational leadership and governance to explain why some organizations expand their scope of action in ways that do not benefit their members directly. John Ahlquist and Margaret Levi document eighty years of such activism by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in the United States and the Waterside Workers Federation in Australia. They systematically compare the ILWU and WWF to the Teamsters and the International Longshoremen's Association, two American transport industry labor unions that actively discouraged the pursuit of political causes unrelated to their own economic interests. Drawing on a wealth of original data, Ahlquist and Levi show how activist organizations can profoundly transform the views of members about their political efficacy and the collective actions they are willing to contemplate. They find that leaders who ask for support of projects without obvious material benefits must first demonstrate their ability to deliver the goods and services members expect. These leaders must also build governance institutions that coordinate expectations about their objectives and the behavior of members. In the Interest of Others reveals how activist labor unions expand the community of fate and provoke preferences that transcend the private interests of individual members. Ahlquist and Levi then extend this logic to other membership organizations, including religious groups, political parties, and the state itself.
Download or read book The Longshoreman a Life at the Water s Edge written by Richard Shelton and published by Atlantic Books (UK). This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fish have been a lifelong obsession for Richard Shelton. As a boy in the 1940s, he was fascinated by what he found in the streams near his Buckinghamshire home. But it was the sea and the creatures living in it and by it which were to become his passion. The Longshoreman follows the author from stream to river, from pond to lake and loch, from shore to deep sea, on a journey from childhood to an adulthood spent in boats in conditions fair and foul. Along the way, this wonderful book introduces us to strange characters and the intimate habits of lobsters; it also explains what it's like to be a lantern fish; how some fish commute between the surface and the darkest depths, when the laws of physics say they should be crushed to death; and the fate of the wild salmon, that heroic fish whose future is now imperilled by its farmed relatives.
Download or read book The Longshoremen written by Charles Brinton Barnes and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Longshoremen written by Charles Brinton Barnes and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Amendments to the Longshoremen s and Harbor Workers Compensation Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oversight hearings on the Longshoremen s and Harbor Workers Compensation Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor Standards and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oversight on the Longshoremen s and Harbor Workers Compensation Act 1980 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oversight Hearings on the Longshoremen s and Harbor Workers Compensation Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Compensation, Health, and Safety and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Amendments to the Longshoremen s and Harbor Workers Compensation Act Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Safety and Compensation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Amendments to the Longshoremen s and Harbor Workers Compensation Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers S. 733 and H.R. 1258, to amend the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act to increase both temporary and permanent benefits in cases of disabling injuries.
Download or read book To Amend the Longshoremen s and Harbor Workers Compensation Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Amend the Longshoremen s and Harbor Workers Compensation Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 3 and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 11.
Download or read book Legislative History of the Longshoremen s and Harbor Workers Compensation Act Amendments of 1972 S 2318 Public Law 92 576 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Labor and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
