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Dock Workers, San Francisco
Dock Workers, San Francisco
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Description:
Dock workers compete for jobs. This hated “shape-up” system required longshoremen to daily beg or bribe their way into a job on the San Francisco docks.
Attribution:
Photograph courtesy of the ILWU Library, San Francisco.