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Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend (Working Class in American History) by Robert W. Cherny is a business book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend (Working Class in American History) about?
The iconic leader of one of America’s most powerful unions, Harry Bridges put an indelible stamp on the twentieth century labor movement. Robert Cherny’s monumental biography tells the life story of the figure who built the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) into a labor powerhouse that still represents almost 30,000 workers. <p>An Australian immigrant, Bridges worked the Pacific Coast docks. His militant unionism placed him at the center of the 1934 West Coast Waterfront Strike
Who reads Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend (Working Class in American History)?
It is typically read by working professionals who need an authoritative practice reference.
Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.
- Author
- Robert W. Cherny
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780252053795
- Category
- business
- Subjects
- Business, Memoir, Political Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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