Seated by the sea : the maritime history of Portland, Maine, and its Irish longshoremen / Michael C. Connolly ; foreword by Joseph E. Brennan.
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- 9780813041759
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- Stevedores -- Maine -- Portland -- History
- Irish -- Maine -- Portland -- History
- Irish Americans -- Maine -- Portland -- History
- Working class -- Maine -- Portland -- History
- Labor unions -- Maine -- Portland -- History
- Social change -- Maine -- Portland -- History
- Portland (Me.) -- Economic conditions
- Portland (Me.) -- Social conditions
- Portland (Me.) -- Ethnic relations
- Port cities -- Maine -- Case studies
- Débardeurs -- Maine -- Portland -- Histoire
- Irlandais -- Maine -- Portland -- Histoire
- Américains d'origine irlandaise -- Maine -- Portland -- Histoire
- Travailleurs -- Maine -- Portland -- Histoire
- Syndicats -- Maine -- Portland -- Histoire
- Villes portuaires -- Maine -- Études de cas
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations
- Economic history
- Ethnic relations
- Irish
- Irish Americans
- Labor unions
- Port cities
- Social change
- Social conditions
- Stevedores
- Working class
- Maine
- Maine -- Portland
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- HD8039.L82 U65125 2010eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Delightfully situated on a healthy hill" : the port of Portland before the Civil War -- Black fades to green on the waterfront : nineteenth-century social, racial, and ethnic change -- A mixed blessing : Portland at the turn of the twentieth century -- Lost strikes and union affiliation : early twentieth-century labor militancy alongshore -- Apex of the union and Catholic hierarchical influence -- Longshore culture and the decline of the port of Portland in the mid- to late twentieth century -- Conclusion: The port of Portland in the twenty-first century and its maritime future -- Appendix A: Portland Town -- Appendix B: Day of the Clipper -- Appendix C: PLSBS retirement list as of January 1983 -- Appendix D: Oral histories -- Appendix E: Longshore nicknames -- Appendix F: Membership levels of the Portland Longshoremen's Benevolent Society.
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This book deals with the history of the port of Portland, Maine, an important North Atlantic maritime community with significant ties to Canada and Europe. A central focus of the book is the primacy of the Irish labour force that served to load and unload ships in this harbor.
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