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Seated by the sea : the maritime history of Portland, Maine, and its Irish longshoremen / Michael C. Connolly ; foreword by Joseph E. Brennan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Connolly, Michael C.
- Series:
- New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology.
- Working in the Americas.
- New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology
- Working in the Americas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stevedores--Maine--Portland--History.
- Stevedores.
- Irish--Maine--Portland--History.
- Irish.
- Irish Americans--Maine--Portland--History.
- Irish Americans.
- Working class--Maine--Portland--History.
- Working class.
- Labor unions--Maine--Portland--History.
- Labor unions.
- Social change--Maine--Portland--History.
- Social change.
- Port cities--Maine--Case studies.
- Port cities.
- Portland (Me.)--Economic conditions.
- Portland (Me.).
- Portland (Me.)--Social conditions.
- Portland (Me.)--Ethnic relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Traces the rise of the Irish-American immigrant community in Portland, Maine, through its control of waterfront labor over eight decades before the port's twentieth century decline.
- Contents:
- "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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-4020-5
- OCLC:
- 741493022
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