Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia by Peter Cole

Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia

The Working Class in American History

Peter Cole

256 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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During the 1910s and 1920s, the Philadelphia waterfront was home to the most durable interracial, multiethnic union seen in the United States prior to the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) era. For much of its time, Local 8's majority was...

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