History as class politics on the docks -- Who controls the waterfront? -- Who speaks for New York's dockworkers? -- Port automation and control of the dock labor process -- The health and safety of the nation? -- Conclusion: class and power: a view from the docks
Summary
New York Longshoremen reveals how labor relations on the docks were driven from below by radical and reform rank-and-file movements led by communists, Catholics, and local union leaders. William Mello uncovers this little-known history that depicts the impact of state and local politics and political institutions on the labor movement in postwar America
