TY  - BOOK
AU  - Connolly,Michael C.
AU  - Brennan,Joseph E.
TI  - Seated by the sea: the maritime history of Portland, Maine, and its Irish longshoremen 
T2  - New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology
SN  - 9780813040202
AV  - HD8039.L82 U65125 2010eb
U1  - 331.6/2415074191 22
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Gainesville
PB  - University Press of Florida
KW  - Stevedores
KW  - Maine
KW  - Portland
KW  - History
KW  - Irish
KW  - Irish Americans
KW  - Working class
KW  - Labor unions
KW  - Social change
KW  - Port cities
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Débardeurs
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Irlandais
KW  - Américains d'origine irlandaise
KW  - Travailleurs
KW  - Syndicats
KW  - Villes portuaires
KW  - Études de cas
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Labor
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Labor & Industrial Relations
KW  - Economic history
KW  - fast
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Portland (Me.)
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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