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Working on the dock of the bay : labor and enterprise in an antebellum Southern port / Michael D. Thompson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611174755
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HD8039 .W675 2015
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Contents:
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 -- Z.
Subject: Working on the Dock of the Bay explores the history of waterfront labor and laborers --
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Working on the Dock of the Bay explores the history of waterfront labor and laborers --

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 -- Z.

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