Labor History: The ILWU

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Sun, 06/14/2009 - 5:00pm

 

Labor Historian Harvey Schwartz talks about his new book Solidarity Stories: An Oral History of the ILWU with the Old Mole's Laurie Mercier.  They trace the origins and growth of the International Longshoremen Workers Union on the West Coast, including the organizing of workers at Powell's Books.  Schwartz reads from his book this evening (June 15) at 6:30 at Laughing Horse Books.  Schwartz is an oral historian at the Labor Archives and Research Center, San Francisco State University, and curator of the Oral History Collection, ILWU Library.

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