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Working the Waterfront: The Ups and Downs of a Rebel Longshoreman

Working the Waterfront: The Ups and Downs of a Rebel Longshoreman

Mers, Gilbert

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ISBN10: 0292722540
ISBN13: 9780292722545
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Sep 1 1988
Pages: 308
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Somebody said, 'History is written by the winners. The losers have nothing to say.' This book is by one of the losers, a bit player, not the star of the drama. So begins Gilbert Mers in these personal recollections of forty-two years on the Texas waterfront as longshoreman and radical union activist. But far from having nothing to say, Mers reveals himself as a thoughtful philosopher of democratic ideals and eloquent agitator for union reform. He challenges the conventional wisdom that the leader is more valuable than the led. He contends that long tenure in positions of power dulls the union officer's working-class instincts. Always one to row against the current, Mers believes the union exists for the benefit of its members!

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