Author: Peter Cole

Peter Cole is a professor of history at Western Illinois University (USA) and a research associate in the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. In addition to the award-winning Dockworker Power, Cole also wrote Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia. He co-edited Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW and edited Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly.

  • The Transnational Activism of Dockworkers

    “Interfere with the foreign policy of the country? Sure as hell! That’s our job, that’s our privilege, that’s our right, that’s our duty” – Harry Bridges, 1974. Dockworkers have power. That’s the basic argument of my book which is named – yes – Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay … Keep reading »

    Labour  •  March 6, 2020  •  Peter Cole