Waterfront Workers of New Orleans

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  • Waterfront Workers of New Orleans Book Detail

  • Author : Eric Arnesen
  • Release Date : 1994
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Genre : Business & Economics
  • Pages : 384
  • ISBN 13 : 9780252063770
  • File Size : 77,77 MB

Waterfront Workers of New Orleans by Eric Arnesen PDF Summary

Book Description: "During the nineteenth century, American and foreign travelers often found New Orleans a delightful, exotic stop on their journeys; few failed to marvel at the riverfront, the center of the city's economic activity. . . . But absent from the tourism industry's historical recollection is any reference to the immigrants or black migrants and their children who constituted the army of laborers along the riverfront and provided the essential human power to keep the cotton, sugar, and other goods flowing. . . . In examining one diverse group of workers--the 10,000 to 15,000 cotton screwmen, longshoremen, cotton and round freight teamsters, cotton yardmen, railroad freight handlers, and Mississippi River roustabouts--this book focuses primarily on the workplace and the labor movement that emerged along the waterfront."--From the preface

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