Harry Bridges
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Harry Bridges

Labor Radical, Labor Legend

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Harry Bridges

Labor Radical, Labor Legend

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The iconic leader of one of America's most powerful unions, Harry Bridges put an indelible stamp on the twentieth century labor movement. Robert Cherny's monumental biography tells the life story of the figure who built the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) into a labor powerhouse that still represents almost 30,000 workers.

An Australian immigrant, Bridges worked the Pacific Coast docks. His militant unionism placed him at the center of the 1934 West Coast Waterfront Strike and spurred him to expand his organizing activities to warehouse laborers and Hawaiian sugar and pineapple workers. Cherny examines the overall effectiveness of Bridges as a union leader and the decisions and traits that made him effective. Cherny also details the price paid by Bridges as the US government repeatedly prosecuted him for his left-wing politics.

Drawing on personal interviews with Bridges and years of exhaustive research, Harry Bridges places an extraordinary individual and the ILWU within the epic history of twentieth-century labor radicalism.

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Information

Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780252088025
9780252044748
eBook ISBN
9780252053795
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Abbreviations
  9. 1 From Australia to the San Francisco Docks, 1901–1922
  10. 2 San Francisco Longshoreman, 1922–1929
  11. 3 San Francisco Longshoremen Organize, 1929–May 9, 1934
  12. 4 The Big Strike, May 9–July 4, 1934
  13. 5 The Big Strike: Bloody Thursday and After, July 5 to the End of 1934
  14. 6 Pursuing Maritime Unity, October 1934–January 1937
  15. 7 Founding the ILWU, 1937–1940
  16. 8 Harry Bridges and the Communist Party in the 1930s: Evidence from the Russian Archives
  17. 9 Deport Bridges! 1934–1941
  18. 10 If at First You Don’t Succeed: Deportation, 1940–1945
  19. 11 World War, Labor Peace, 1940–1945
  20. 12 Cold War, Labor War, 1945–1948
  21. 13 Try, Try, Again: Deportation and Expulsion, 1948–1953
  22. 14 The Last Deportation Trial and New Beginnings, 1953–1960
  23. 15 Transforming Longshoring: The M&Ms, 1955–1966
  24. 16 Labor Statesman? 1960–1971
  25. 17 The Longest Strike: Relations with the PMA, 1966–1977
  26. 18 Living Legend, 1971–1990
  27. Epilogue
  28. Notes
  29. Selected Bibliography
  30. Index

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