Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863-1923 - Softcover

Arnesen, Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252063775 ISBN 13: 9780252063770

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1994

Synopsis

Winner of the John H. Dunning Prize in United States History

During the nineteenth century, American and foreign travelers often found New Orleans a delightful, exotic stop on their journeys. Few failed to marvel at the riverfront, the center of the city's economic activity. But historical memory overlooks the immigrants and Black migrants who served in the riverfront's army of laborers and provided the essential human power that kept the cotton, sugar, and other goods flowing. Eric Arnesen examines the diverse group of 10,000 to 15,000 cotton screwmen, longshoremen, cotton and round freight teamsters, cotton yardmen, railroad freight handlers, and Mississippi River roustabouts that formed the backbone of the Crescent City's trade and economic life.

About this title

About the Author

Eric Arnesen is the James R. Hoffa Teamsters Professor of Modern American Labor History and Vice Dean for Faculty and Administration at George Washington University's Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. His books include Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality, Black Protest and the Great Migration: A Brief History with Documents, and The Black Worker: Race, Labor, and Civil Rights since Emancipation.

From the Back Cover

Bridging the gap between African-American and labor history, Waterfront of New Orleans focuses on ten thousand black and white riverfront workers and class and race relations from the turbulent Civil War and Reconstruction years to the early twentieth century's age of segregation.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252063775
• ISBN 13: 9780252063770
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384