Few work settings can compete with the waterfront for a long, rich history         of multi-ethnic and multiracial interaction. Here, five scholars focus         on the complex relationships involved in this intersection of race, class,         and ethnicity.       "Opens up some of the most significant questions in American labor         and social history, including the struggle for control at the workplace         and, even more important, the relationship between black and white workers         and among various ethnic groups on the docks." -- David Brundage,         author of The Making of Western Labor Radicalism: Denver's Organized         Workers, 1878-1905       A volume in the series The Working Class in American History, edited         by David Brody, Alice Kessler-Harris, David Montgomery, and Sean Wilentz