Seated by the SeaISBN: 9780813040202Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University Press of FloridaDigital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: Port cities; Social change; Labor unions; Working class; Irish Americans; Irish; Stevedores; Traces the rise of the Irish-American immigrant community in Portland, Maine, through its control of waterfront labor over eight decades before the portOCOs twentieth century decline.