Working on the Dock of the Bay : Labor and Enterprise in an Antebellum Southern Port /

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Working on the Dock of the Bay explores the history of waterfront labor and laborers -- black and white, enslaved and free, native and immigrant -- in Charleston, SC, between the American Revolution and Civil War. Michael D. Thompson explains how a predominantly enslaved workforce laid the groundwor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thompson, Michael D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Stevedores.
Social conditions.
Race relations.
Labor.
Economic history.
African American stevedores.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Travail > Caroline du Sud > Charleston > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Debardeurs noirs americains > Caroline du Sud > Charleston > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Debardeurs > Caroline du Sud > Charleston > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Labor & Workers' Economics.
Business & Economics.
Labor > South Carolina > Charleston > History > 19th century.
African American stevedores > South Carolina > Charleston > History > 19th century.
Stevedores > South Carolina > Charleston > History > 19th century.
South Carolina > Charleston.
Charleston (S.C.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Charleston (S.C.) > Economic conditions > 19th century.
Charleston (S.C.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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 Competition
  • Postscript
  • 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
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