Port Cities and Global Legacies : Urban Identity, Waterfront Work, and Radicalism
ISBN: 9781137283146
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Subjects: Social Science;

Port cities have distinctive global dynamics, with long histories of casual labour, large migrant communities, and international trade networks. This in-depth comparative study examines contradictory global legacies across themes of urban identity, waterfront work and radicalism in key post-industrial port cities worldwide.

Alice Mah is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the author of Industrial Ruination, Community, and Place (2012), which won the 2013 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize.

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