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Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia (Working Class in American History) (7th Edition) by Peter Cole Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2007 ISBN-10: 0-252-03186-5 / 0252031865 ISBN-13: 978-0-252-03186-1 / 9780252031861 During the 1910s and 1920s, the Philadelphia waterfront was home to the most durable interracial, multiethnic union seen in the United States prior to the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) era. For much of its time, Local 8's majority was African American and included immigrants from Easte |