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On the Global Waterfront The Fight to Free the Charleston 5

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ISBN-10: 1583671633

ISBN-13: 9781583671634

Edition: 2008

Authors: Suzan Erem, E. Paul Durrenberger, Terry J. Allen

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Longshoremen stand at the nexus of the global economy, handling nearly every cargo container that enters or leaves any country. Even in the face of cargo containerization in the 70s and 80s, a development that decimated longshore unions, they have managed to win contracts that provide health benefits and high wages. On the Global Waterfront tells the story of how longshoremen in South Carolina confronted attempts to wipe out the states most powerful black organization. When a Danish shipping company began to shift their transportation to a nonunion firm in 1999, Local 1422 in Charleston, South Carolina, mobilized to protect their hard-won rights. What followed culminated in a protest in…    
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Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Publication date: 1/22/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Suzan Erem is a freelance writer for unions and author of Labor Pains: Inside America's New Union Movement (Monthly Review Press 2001). They are coauthors of Class Acts: An Anthropology of Service Workers and Their Union (Paradigm 2005).

E. Paul Durrenberger was Professor of Anthropology for twenty-five years at the University of Iowa before moving to Penn State. He has published many influential articles and books.

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
The Provocation
Storm Rising
Condon and the "Christians"
Taking up Positions
On the Waterfront
Nordana Bows to Global Pressure
Black Longshoremen: When Race and Class Collide
Condon and Riley Launch Their Campaigns
The Tide Starts to Turn
Free the Charleston 5!
Countdown to Trial
Victory!
The Battle to Come
Not Just Another Labor Story
Afterword
Notes
Index