The Dublin Docker: Working Lives of Dublin's Deep-Sea Port

by Don Bennett and Aileen O'Carroll

As a port city, Dublin owes much to the labourers who strove against the heavy-duty tide of imports and exports; a league of thousands who were hired on a day-to-day basis for generations, defining both the landscape and activity in Dublin's city center and the urban industrial working-class in Ireland. These were the dockers and stevedores of Dublin Port, and this is their history, brought to life through this sumptuously illustrated, social history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1911024841
• ISBN13: 9781911024842
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Irish Academic Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 8.8"