Seated by the Sea The Maritime History of Portland, Maine, and Its Irish Longshoremen
Title
Seated by the Sea [electronic resource] : The Maritime History of Portland, Maine, and Its Irish Longshoremen / Michael C. Connolly ; foreword by Joseph E. Brennan.
"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.
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Author
Connolly, Michael C.
Title
Seated by the Sea [electronic resource] : The Maritime History of Portland, Maine, and Its Irish Longshoremen / Michael C. Connolly ; foreword by Joseph E. Brennan.
Imprint
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2010. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Series
Working in the Americas
New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology
Working in the Americas.
New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology.