Labor in the port of Liverpool constituted part of a 100-year long history, reaching back to (and before) the great London-based dock workers strike of 1889. These pioneers of a new unionism among workers considered “unskilled,” denigrated as little more than unthinking beasts of burden, charted a historic breakthrough. More

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