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1、REVIEWESSAYS/NOTESCRITIQUESTwoAgesofWaterfrontLabourJohnBellamyFosterBruceNelson,WorkersontheWaterfront:Seamen,Longshoremen,andUnionisminthe1930s(Chicago:UniversityofIllinoisPress1988).WilliamFinlay,WorkontheWaterfront:WorkerPowerandTechnologicalChangeinaWestCoastPort(Philadelphia:Temple
2、UniversityPress1988).THEREARETWOcrucialwatershedsinthemodemhistoryofwaterfrontlabour(1)thesuccessfulstruggle,beginningwiththePacificCoastrevoltsofthe1930s,toset-upunion-dominatedhiringhalls;and(2)thetechnologicalrevolutionincargohandlingandshipdesignassociatedwiththeintroductionofcontain
3、ersinthe1960sand70s.BruceNelson'shistoricaltreatmentofwaterfrontlabourfocusesonthefirstofthesewatersheds,withparticularemphasisontheinteractionsbetweenseamenandlongshoremenduringthe"syndicalistrenaissance''ofthelate1930s.WilliamFinlay'ssociologicalstudyisconcernedwiththeeffectsofthesecon
4、dwatershed—thetechnologicalrevolutionincargohandling—onskilllevels,jobcontrolandstatushierarchieswithindielongshorelabourprocess.Agoodsenseofthedramaticallydifferentemphasesofthesebookscanbederivedbycomparingtheirdustjackets.ThecoveroftheNelsonstudyshowsaphotographofamarchbypicketingSanF
5、ranciscolongshoremen,duringthefirstweekofdielegendary1934strike.Overlaidonthisarephotographsoftwoformer"Aussies"whohadalargeimpactontheUSwaterfrontstrugglesofthe1930s:HarryBridges,whowastobecomethedominantfigureintheInternationalLongshoremen'sandWarehousemen'sUnion(ILWU),andHarryHynes,ar
6、ank-and-fileleaderoftheCommunist-ledMarineWorkersIndustrialUnion(MWIU)JohnBellamyPotter,"TwoAgoofWaterfrontLabour."LabourlUTravail,26(Fall1990),155-163.156LABOUR/LETRAVAILandeditoroftheSanFranciscoWaterfrontWorker,whodiedfightingwiththeInternationalBrigadesintheSpanishCivilWar.Incontrast
7、,onFinlay'scoveroneseesnotworkersbutastackofcontainersandpartofacontainercrane.Thefocushereisnotonaworkers'revoltbutontheeffectsofatechnologicalrevolutionontheorganizationofworkinaWestCoastport(LosAngeles-LongBeach).Takentogether,thesetwobooksthereforeforceustoconfrontthe
