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Author | : Harry Kyriakodis |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2011-07-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1625841884 |
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Join Harry Kyriakodis as he strolls Front Street, Delaware Avenue, and Penn's Landing to rediscover the story of Philadelphia's lost waterfront. The wharves and docks of William Penn's city that helped build a nation are gone lost to the onslaught of over 300 years of development. Yet the bygone streets and piers of Philadelphia's central waterfront were once part of the greatest tradecenter in the American colonies. Local historian Harry Kyriakodis chronicles the history of the city's original port district from Quaker settlers who first lived in caves along the Delaware and the devastating yellow fever epidemic of 1793 to its heyday as a maritime center and then the twentieth century that saw much of the historic riverfront razed.
Author | : Derek Cox |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Urban renewal |
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Author | : William Arthur Douglas Jackson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) |
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Author | : Peter Cole |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2010-10-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0252090853 |
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The rise and fall of America's first truly interracial labor union For almost a decade during the 1910s and 1920s, the Philadelphia waterfront was home to the most durable interracial, multiethnic union seen in the United States prior to the CIO era. For much of its time, Local 8 was majority black, always with a cadre of black leaders. The union also claimed immigrants from Eastern Europe, as well as many Irish Americans, who had a notorious reputation for racism. This important study is the first book-length examination of how Local 8, affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World, accomplished what no other did at the time. Peter Cole outlines the factors that were instrumental in Local 8's success, both ideological (the IWW's commitment to working-class solidarity) and pragmatic (racial divisions helped solidify employer dominance). He also shows how race was central not only to the rise but also to the decline of Local 8, as increasing racial tensions were manipulated by employers and federal agents bent on the union's destruction.
Author | : Harry G. Kyriakodis |
Publisher | : History Press Library Editions |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2011-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781540206244 |
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Author | : Asbell & Associates |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) |
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Author | : William Arthur Douglas Jackson |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1955 |
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Author | : Peter Cole |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 956 |
Release | : 19?? |
Genre | : Labor unions |
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Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Harbors |
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Author | : Jorey S. Friedman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Waterfronts |
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