Kenny Riley and black union labor power in the port of Charleston /

""Their ancestors may have been cargo in the slave ships that arrived in the Port of Charleston, S.C. Today, the scale has been rebalanced: black longshoremen run the port's cargo operation. They are members of the International Longshoremen's Association, a powerful labor union,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Reed, Edward James, 1948- (Autor), Yurechko, John Joseph (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020]
Temas:
Riley, Kenny, > 1953-
International Longshoremen's Association. > Local 1422 (Charleston, S.C.)
African American labor leaders > South Carolina > Charleston > Biography.
African American stevedores > South Carolina > Charleston > Biography.
Stevedores > Labor unions > South Carolina > Charleston > History.
Dirigeants syndicaux noirs américains > Caroline du Sud > Charleston > Biographies.
Débardeurs noirs américains > Caroline du Sud > Charleston > Biographies.
Débardeurs > Syndicats > Caroline du Sud > Charleston > Histoire.
African American labor leaders.
African American stevedores.
Stevedores > Labor unions.
South Carolina > Charleston.
Biography
Biographies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface by Ted Reed
  • Introduction
  • 1. We Lived in Our Own Little World
  • 2. Getting an Education, Separate Not Equal
  • 3. Charleston the Slave Port
  • 4. A City Is Born: It Grows on the Backs of Slaves
  • 5. The War for Freedom Leaves Many Enslaved
  • 6. South Carolina Declares War on the United States
  • 7. ­Ex-Slaves Form a Labor Union and It Folds
  • 8. Charleston Rots and Then Rebounds
  • 9. George Washington German Brings the Union Back
  • 10. On the Waterfront
  • 11. Containers Take Over the World
  • 12. A Sixties Kid Takes Over Local 1422
  • 13. A World Beyond Charleston
  • 14. The Charleston Five
  • 15. Lessons Learned from the Charleston Five
  • 16. A Charleston Guy Finds Allies in New York and San Francisco
  • 17. The Family Politics of Local 1422
  • 18. For Labor, South Carolina Is Tough, but "The Union Is Anomalous"
  • 19. Riley Looks to Retirement
  • Chapter Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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