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American labour history is typically interpreted by scholars as a history of defeat. Hidden by this conventional wisdom are a handful of militant unions that did not follow the putative Congress of Industrial Organizations trajectory. Based on three years of ethnographic research, this book examines a union that organised itself to systematically challenge management's rule on the shopfloor: San Francisco's longshore union. American unionism looks quite different than conventional wisdom suggests when everyday union practices are observed. American labour's trajectory, this book argues, is neither inevitable nor determined; militant, democratic forms of unionism are possible in the United States; and collective bargaining does not automatically eliminate contests for workplace control. The contract is a bargain that reflects and reproduces fundamental disagreement; it states how production and conflict will proceed.

Industrial relations --- Social conflict --- Stevedores --- #SBIB:316.334.2A418 --- Dock hands --- Dockers --- Dockhands --- Dockworkers --- Longshore workers --- Longshoremen --- Shore porters --- Waterfront workers --- Waterside workers --- Wharf labourers --- Wharfies --- Wharfys --- Harbor personnel --- Class conflict --- Class struggle --- Conflict, Social --- Social tensions --- Interpersonal conflict --- Social psychology --- Sociology --- Capital and labor --- Employee-employer relations --- Employer-employee relations --- Labor and capital --- Labor-management relations --- Labor relations --- Employees --- Management --- Labor unions --- Arbeidssociologie: de vakbeweging in niet-Europese landen --- International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. --- Social Sciences

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Offers a new approach to the study of labor on the subcontinent and globally, questioning the relevance of the predominant wage labor paradigm for Africa and the Global South.

Zulu (African people) --- Social conditions. --- Rural-urban relations. --- Labor. --- Economic history. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Economics --- Rural-urban relations --- Labor --- Stevedores --- Rural-urban interaction --- Urban-rural interaction --- Urban-rural relations --- Sociology, Rural --- Sociology, Urban --- Amazulu (African people) --- Isizulu (African people) --- Kafirs (African people) --- Zulus --- Zunda (African people) --- Ethnology --- Nguni (African people) --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Economics --- Labor and laboring classes --- Manpower --- Work --- Working class --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- History --- Sociology --- Dock hands --- Dockers --- Dockhands --- Dockworkers --- Longshore workers --- Longshoremen --- Shore porters --- Waterfront workers --- Waterside workers --- Wharf labourers --- Wharfies --- Wharfys --- Harbor personnel --- Economic conditions. --- South Africa --- Durban (South Africa) --- Durban, Natal --- eThekwini (South Africa) --- Africa, South --- Anti-Indian Sentiments. --- Apartheid. --- British Empire. --- Durban's Docks. --- Durban. --- Economic Nationalism. --- Gender Dynamics. --- Global Labor. --- Indian Ocean. --- Livelihoods. --- Rural Households. --- South Africa. --- Wage Labor. --- Zulu Workers.