Organizing the shipyards

the long version

David Palmer documents the history of union organizing at three of America's largest private shipyards. These shipbuilding complexes had tremendous strategic importance because of their locations: New York Shipbuilding was located in the port of Philadelphia, Bethlehem Fore River Shipyard in the port of Boston, and Federal Shipbuilding in the port of New York. Palmer's account covers the period from the Great Depression and the beginning of the New Deal to the end of World War II.