"Delightfully situated on a healthy hill" : the port of Portland before the Civil War -- Black fades to green on the waterfront : nineteenth-century social, racial, and ethnic change -- A mixed blessing : Portland at the turn of the twentieth century -- Lost strikes and union affiliation : early twentieth-century labor militancy alongshore -- Apex of the union and Catholic hierarchical influence -- Longshore culture and the decline of the port of Portland in the mid- to late twentieth century -- Conclusion: The port of Portland in the twenty-first century and its maritime future -- Appendix A. Portland Town -- Appendix B. Day of the Clipper -- Appendix C. PLSBS retirement list as of January 1983 -- Appendix D. Oral histories -- Appendix E. Longshore nicknames -- Appendix F. Membership levels of the Portland Longshoremen's Benevolent Society
