Seated by the sea : the maritime history of Portland, Maine, and its Irish longshoremen /

This book deals with the history of the port of Portland, Maine, an important North Atlantic maritime community with significant ties to Canada and Europe. A central focus of the book is the primacy of the Irish labour force that served to load and unload ships in this harbor.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Connolly, Michael C. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Brennan, Joseph E. (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2010]
Colección:New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology.
Working in the Americas.
Temas:
Stevedores > Maine > Portland > History.
Irish > Maine > Portland > History.
Irish Americans > Maine > Portland > History.
Working class > Maine > Portland > History.
Labor unions > Maine > Portland > History.
Social change > Maine > Portland > History.
Port cities > Maine > Case studies.
Débardeurs > Maine > Portland > Histoire.
Irlandais > Maine > Portland > Histoire.
Américains d'origine irlandaise > Maine > Portland > Histoire.
Travailleurs > Maine > Portland > Histoire.
Syndicats > Maine > Portland > Histoire.
Villes portuaires > Maine > Études de cas.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Economic history
Ethnic relations
Irish
Irish Americans
Labor unions
Port cities
Social change
Social conditions
Stevedores
Working class
Portland (Me.) > Economic conditions.
Portland (Me.) > Social conditions.
Portland (Me.) > Ethnic relations.
Maine
Maine > Portland
Case studies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Delightfully situated on a healthy hill" : the port of Portland before the Civil War
  • Black fades to green on the waterfront : nineteenth-century social, racial, and ethnic change
  • A mixed blessing : Portland at the turn of the twentieth century
  • Lost strikes and union affiliation : early twentieth-century labor militancy alongshore
  • Apex of the union and Catholic hierarchical influence
  • Longshore culture and the decline of the port of Portland in the mid- to late twentieth century
  • Conclusion: The port of Portland in the twenty-first century and its maritime future
  • Appendix A: Portland Town
  • Appendix B: Day of the Clipper
  • Appendix C: PLSBS retirement list as of January 1983
  • Appendix D: Oral histories
  • Appendix E: Longshore nicknames
  • Appendix F: Membership levels of the Portland Longshoremen's Benevolent Society.

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