Title Seated by the sea : the maritime history of Portland, Maine, and its Irish longshoremen / Michael C. Connolly ; foreword by Joseph E. Brennan.

Publication Info.	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2010]
	©2010

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Description	1 online resource (xxiii, 280 pages) : illustrations, map.
Series	New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology
	Working in the Americas
	New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology.
	Working in the Americas.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	"Delightfully situated on a healthy hill" : the port of Portland before the Civil War -- Black fades to green on the waterfront : nineteenth-century social, racial, and ethnic change -- A mixed blessing : Portland at the turn of the twentieth century -- Lost strikes and union affiliation : early twentieth-century labor militancy alongshore -- Apex of the union and Catholic hierarchical influence -- Longshore culture and the decline of the port of Portland in the mid- to late twentieth century -- Conclusion: The port of Portland in the twenty-first century and its maritime future -- Appendix A: Portland Town -- Appendix B: Day of the Clipper -- Appendix C: PLSBS retirement list as of January 1983 -- Appendix D: Oral histories -- Appendix E: Longshore nicknames -- Appendix F: Membership levels of the Portland Longshoremen's Benevolent Society.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	This book deals with the history of the port of Portland, Maine, an important North Atlantic maritime community with significant ties to Canada and Europe. A central focus of the book is the primacy of the Irish labour force that served to load and unload ships in this harbor.
Subject	Stevedores -- Maine -- Portland -- History.
	Irish -- Maine -- Portland -- History.
	Irish Americans -- Maine -- Portland -- History.
	Working class -- Maine -- Portland -- History.
	Labor unions -- Maine -- Portland -- History.
	Social change -- Maine -- Portland -- History.
	Portland (Me.) -- Economic conditions.
	Portland (Me.) -- Social conditions.
	Portland (Me.) -- Ethnic relations.
	Port cities -- Maine -- Case studies.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
	Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
	Ethnic relations. (OCoLC)fst00916005
	Irish. (OCoLC)fst00978902
	Irish Americans. (OCoLC)fst00978933
	Labor unions. (OCoLC)fst00990260
	Port cities. (OCoLC)fst01746576
	Social change. (OCoLC)fst01122310
	Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
	Stevedores. (OCoLC)fst01133295
	Working class. (OCoLC)fst01180418
	Maine. (OCoLC)fst01204270
	Maine -- Portland. (OCoLC)fst01213254
Genre/Form	Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Connolly, Michael C. Seated by the sea. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2010 9780813034690 (DLC) 2009044785 (OCoLC)437299332
ISBN	9780813040202 (electronic bk.)
	0813040205 (electronic bk.)

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