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

by Gilbert Mers

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292722540
• ISBN13: 9780292722545
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"