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.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
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.
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.
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Subject	Stevedores -- Maine -- Portland -- History.
	Stevedores.
	Maine -- Portland.
	History.
	Irish -- Maine -- Portland -- History.
	Irish.
	Irish Americans -- Maine -- Portland -- History.
	Irish Americans.
	Working class -- Maine -- Portland -- History.
	Working class.
	Labor unions -- Maine -- Portland -- History.
	Labor unions.
	Social change -- Maine -- Portland -- History.
	Social change.
	Portland (Me.) -- Economic conditions.
	Portland (Me.) -- Social conditions.
	Portland (Me.) -- Ethnic relations.
	Port cities -- Maine -- Case studies.
	Port cities.
	Maine.
Genre/Form	Case studies.
	Electronic books.
	History.
	Case studies.
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 book)
	0813040205 (electronic book)
	9780813034690
	0813034698

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

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