An analysis of conditions of employment in the port of Manchester, this 1956 study is based on enquiries conducted in 1950-51.

In the early twentieth century, when many US unions disgracefully excluded black and Asian workers, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) warmly welcomed pe

This study provides the opportunity to compare the hiring and employment practices, within the context of local conditions, as they exist in five major ports. I

Workers who loaded and unloaded ships have formed a distinctive occupational group over the past two centuries. As trade expanded so the numbers of dock laboure

Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) and the Cornell ILR School, 2019 A Black Perspectives Best Black Hist