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Harry Bridges
- Labor Radical, Labor Legend
Engelsk Hardback
Harry Bridges
- Labor Radical, Labor Legend
Engelsk Hardback

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Winner of a Silver Medal from the Independent Publisher Book AwardsWon Honorable Mention for 2023 ILHA Book of the Year (International Labor History Association) The iconic leader of one of America's most powerful unions, Harry Bridges put an indelible stamp on the twentieth century labor movement. Robert Cherny's monumental biography tells the life story of the figure who built the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) into a labor powerhouse that still represents almost 30,000 workers. An Australian immigrant, Bridges worked the Pacific Coast docks. His militant unionism placed him at the center of the 1934 West Coast Waterfront Strike and spurred him to expand his organizing activities to warehouse laborers and Hawaiian sugar and pineapple workers. Cherny examines the overall effectiveness of Bridges as a union leader and the decisions and traits that made him effective. Cherny also details the price paid by Bridges as the US government repeatedly prosecuted him for his left-wing politics. Drawing on personal interviews with Bridges and years of exhaustive research, Harry Bridges places an extraordinary individual and the ILWU within the epic history of twentieth-century labor radicalism.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
504
ISBN-13:
9780252044748
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0252044746
Udg. Dato:
10 jan 2023
Længde:
41mm
Bredde:
168mm
Højde:
243mm
Forlag:
University of Illinois Press
Oplagsdato:
10 jan 2023
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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