| Waterfront Workers of New Orleans Race, Class, and Politics, 1863-1923 Contributor(s): Arnesen, Eric (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252063775 ISBN-13: 9780252063770 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1994 Annotation: Bridging the gap between African-American and labor history, Waterfront of New Orleans focuses on ten thousand black and white riverfront workers and class and race relations from the turbulent Civil War and Reconstruction years to the early twentieth century's age of segregation. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Careers - Job Hunting - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration |
| Dewey: 331.761 |
| LCCN: 93033057 |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6.01" W x 8.98" (1.17 lbs) 384 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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 |