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'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. He challenges the conventional wisdom that the leader is more valuable than the led. He contends that long tenure in positions of power dulls the union officer's working-class instincts. Always one to row against the current, Mers believes the union exists for the benefit of its members!

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Central government

• Full title: Working the Waterfront
• Subtitle: The Ups and Downs of a Rebel Longshoreman
• Author: Gilbert Mers
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308
• EAN: 9780292722545
• ISBN: 0292722540
• ID: 04873044
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Weight: 816 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. January 1988

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