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Wobblies on the waterfront : interracial unionism in progressive-era Philadelphia
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Wobblies on the waterfront : interracial unionism in progressive-era Philadelphia / Peter Cole.
ISBN
9780252031861 (cloth : alk. paper)
0252031865 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2007.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Variant and related titles
Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-221) and index.
Contents
Introduction : in search of Local 8
Philadelphia : "the workship of the world"
Wobblies take the docks
There is power in a union
War on the waterfront
Onward one big union?
Riding the wave of postwar militancy : the 1920 strike
The Philadelphia controversy
Quakertown blues : the lockout of 1922
Conclusion : towards radical egalitarianism.
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