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oapen-20.500.12657-497672021-07-21T04:08:21Z A Global Radical Waterfront Weiss, Holger General and world history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBG General & world history This volume investigates the ambition of the Red International of Labour Unions to radicalize the global waterfront during the interwar period. The main vehicle was the International Propaganda Committee of Transport Workers, replaced in 1930 by the International of Seamen and Harbour Workers as well as their agitation and propaganda centres, the International Harbour Bureaus and the International Seamen’s Clubs. The book scrutinizes their solidarity campaigns in support of local and national strikes as well as on their agitation against discrimination, segregation and racism within the unions, their demands to organize non-white maritime transport workers, and their calls for engagement in anti-fascist, anti-war and anti-imperialist actions. Readership: All interested in global labour history and labour radicalism and militancy, the history of the Comintern/Red International of Labour Unions/Profintern, global history of the interwar period, history of antifascism, anti-imperialism, and anti-colonialism, as well as global maritime history. 2021-07-06T13:02:00Z 2021-07-06T13:02:00Z 2021 book ONIX_20210706_9789004462915_19 9789004462915 9789004463288 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49767 eng Studies in Global Social History application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 9789004463288.pdf https://brill.com/abstract/title/60018 Brill 10.1163/9789004463288 10.1163/9789004463288 af16fd4b-42a1-46ed-82e8-c5e880252026 9789004462915 9789004463288 43 524 open access
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This volume investigates the ambition of the Red International of Labour Unions to radicalize the global waterfront during the interwar period. The main vehicle was the International Propaganda Committee of Transport Workers, replaced in 1930 by the International of Seamen and Harbour Workers as well as their agitation and propaganda centres, the International Harbour Bureaus and the International Seamen’s Clubs. The book scrutinizes their solidarity campaigns in support of local and national strikes as well as on their agitation against discrimination, segregation and racism within the unions, their demands to organize non-white maritime transport workers, and their calls for engagement in anti-fascist, anti-war and anti-imperialist actions. Readership: All interested in global labour history and labour radicalism and militancy, the history of the Comintern/Red International of Labour Unions/Profintern, global history of the interwar period, history of antifascism, anti-imperialism, and anti-colonialism, as well as global maritime history.
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