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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.
“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.
“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.