- Title:
- Longshore Workers in Tacoma
- Date Created:
- 1995
- Description:
- This collection of interviews with local longshoreman examines several aspects of the longshoring industry in Tacoma, including mechanization, race and gender relations, and the role of the national and local unions. Interviewees include Wardell Canada, Jr., a former member of the Black Longshore Association; Isaac Morrow, a Port of Tacoma foreman who pioneered on-dock intermodal shipping; Rodney Rhymes and Douglas Woods, two career longshoreman with thirty-five years experience between them; Marlene Anderson, the first woman in Pierce County to work in the longshoring industry; and Phil Rees, a casual (non-union) longshoreman who hopes to follow in his fathers and grandfathers footsteps.
- Subjects:
- Canada, Wardell Morrow, Isaac Rhymes, Rodney, 1960- Woods, Douglas, 1950- Anderson, Marlene, 1944- Rees, Phil (Stevedore) Stevedores--Washington (State)--Tacoma--Interviews African Americans--Washington (State)--Tacoma--Interviews International Longshore and Warehouse Union Labor unions--Washington (State) Labor unions--United States Mechanization--Social aspects--Washington (State)--Tacoma African Americans--Employment--Washington (State)--Tacoma Women--Employment--Washington (State)--Tacoma Washington (State)--Economic conditions
- Location:
- United States--Washington (State)--Tacoma
- Source:
- University of Washington Tacoma Community History Project
- Source Identifier:
- chp1995-01
- Type:
- text
- Format:
- cpd
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- http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/?language=en