Seated by the Sea: The Maritime History of Portland, Maine, and its Irish Longshoremen

Seated by the Sea: The Maritime History of Portland, Maine, and its Irish Longshoremen group work Wydawca: University Press of Florida Data wydania: 2010 ISBN: 9780813034690 Liczba stron: Format: 158 x 232 x 24 Rodzaj oprawy: Hardback Opis produktu: A study of the on-shore labor force that made the port function from the mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries. It shows how Irish immigrants replaced and supplanted the existing West Indian workers and established benevolent societies and unions that were closed to blacks.