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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463408703321

Autore

Thompson Michael D.

Titolo

Working on the dock of the bay : labor and enterprise in an antebellum Southern port / / Michael D. Thompson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, South Carolina : , : The University of South Carolina Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-61117-857-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Disciplina

331.7/6138710975791509034

Soggetti

Stevedores - South Carolina - Charleston - History - 19th century

African American stevedores - South Carolina - Charleston - History - 19th century

Labor - South Carolina - Charleston - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Charleston (S.C.) Race relations History 19th century

Charleston (S.C.) Economic conditions 19th century

Charleston (S.C.) Social conditions 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One. "Using violent exercise in warm weather": The Waterfront Labor Experience and Environment; Two. "This very troublesome business": Actions, Reactions, and the Pursuit of Mastery; Three. "Improper assemblies & conspiracies": The Advantageous Enticements of Wharf Labor; Four. "Laborers from abroad have come to take their places": The Racial and Ethnic Transformation of the Waterfront Workforce

Five. "The unacclimated stranger should be positively prohibited": Comparative Disease Susceptibility and Waterfront Labor CompetitionPostscript; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

An examination of the role and struggles of enslaved dock workers shortly after emancipation