Description: From the back cover:"For more than 3 centuries the port was at the very heart of Liverpool's story. Foreign trade was the lifeblood of the economy, and the docks were full of ships from around the world. The people who found employment in Liverpool's docks generally lived close to their work, and the dockland communities inshore were just as vibrant, noisy and jam-packed as the docks themselves.Brian Towers (the author) was ideally placed to write a book about the lives and struggles of ordinary working people in Liverpool's dockland. A university professor specialising in industrial relations, his ancestors had themselves been dockers and seamen in Liverpool. His own parents were killed in the 1941 Blitz, and he was brought up in the Scotland Road area by his grandmother, Lizzie. These family and personal connections bring an intimacy and an immediacy to the study, rarely found in books from an experienced scholar.This book tells the story of the rise and fall of the working communities of Liverpool's docklands with rare insight, clarity and sensitivity." 362 pages, illustrated
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Features: Illustrated
Original Language: English
Book Title: Waterfront Blues : the Rise and Fall of Liverpool's Docklands
Item Length: 9.2in.
Item Width: 6.2in.
Author: Brian Towers
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Sociology / General, Regional Studies, Europe / Great Britain / General, Labor, Europe / General, Customs & Traditions, Marine & Naval
Publisher: Carnegie Publishing The Limited
Publication Year: 2012
Genre: Technology & Engineering, Travel, Business & Economics, History, Social Science
Item Weight: 13.3 Oz
Number of Pages: 376 Pages
