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After his youth in the projects and a tour in Vietnam, Michael Shea hires in at a Boston shipyard torn by the racial clashes of 1970s Boston. Inside the gates he encounters a ruthless company and union leadership whose militancy has faded with the years. Shea reaches across the yard’s sharp color line to build friendships and a movement for justice.
When an international crisis darkens the shipyard’s prospects, management turns on the workforce with disastrous results. Through the eyes of its welders, Goliath At Sunset tells a timeless story of race, class and the quest for respect on the job.
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“Brandow is unflinching in his depiction of the abuses the laborers suffer and of the complexities that come with working for justice… A thought-provoking portrayal of worker abuse and labor organizing.” KIRKUS
“Brandow weaves a telling text, capturing diverse voices, youthful energy, and a shipyard’s vocabulary and slang. Even if the reader is not a welder, the workplace’s cadence and challenges, along with the pride in craft, shine through. For an authentic working-class novel, one can’t go wrong with Goliath at Sunset.” —Mike Matejka, Power at Work
“Jon Brandow hits a home-run with his compelling and absorbing tale of the struggle for workers' rights in a Massachusetts shipyard. Brandow illuminates the life and struggles of workers in what in the 1970s had been the second most dangerous industry in the country. But this is actually a story about resistance. About fighting back. A story about the real world complications faced by those who endeavor to do the right thing. The book is simply marvelous and so completely absorbing I did not want to even pause in reading it.” ~Bill Fletcher, Jr., author of The Man Who Fell From the Sky, and The Man Who Changed Colors
“The finest prose I’ve ever edited, and I have put 300 working-class writers into print. Hats off to you, Jon!” Tim Sheard, author, editor, songwriter.
After his youth in the projects and a tour in Vietnam, Michael Shea hires in at a Boston shipyard torn by the racial clashes of 1970s Boston. Inside the gates he encounters a ruthless company and union leadership whose militancy has faded with the years. Shea reaches across the yard’s sharp color line to build friendships and a movement for justice.
When an international crisis darkens the shipyard’s prospects, management turns on the workforce with disastrous results. Through the eyes of its welders, Goliath At Sunset tells a timeless story of race, class and the quest for respect on the job.
STUDY GUIDE INCLUDED
“Brandow is unflinching in his depiction of the abuses the laborers suffer and of the complexities that come with working for justice… A thought-provoking portrayal of worker abuse and labor organizing.” KIRKUS
“Brandow weaves a telling text, capturing diverse voices, youthful energy, and a shipyard’s vocabulary and slang. Even if the reader is not a welder, the workplace’s cadence and challenges, along with the pride in craft, shine through. For an authentic working-class novel, one can’t go wrong with Goliath at Sunset.” —Mike Matejka, Power at Work
“Jon Brandow hits a home-run with his compelling and absorbing tale of the struggle for workers' rights in a Massachusetts shipyard. Brandow illuminates the life and struggles of workers in what in the 1970s had been the second most dangerous industry in the country. But this is actually a story about resistance. About fighting back. A story about the real world complications faced by those who endeavor to do the right thing. The book is simply marvelous and so completely absorbing I did not want to even pause in reading it.” ~Bill Fletcher, Jr., author of The Man Who Fell From the Sky, and The Man Who Changed Colors
“The finest prose I’ve ever edited, and I have put 300 working-class writers into print. Hats off to you, Jon!” Tim Sheard, author, editor, songwriter.