[Ronald Magden Archive] [Publications] [Magden interview] [Photos] [Film: 1934 Strike]
Ron Magden is the author of several books, including The Working Longshoremen (written with Art Martinson) based on extensive oral history interviews with several generations of Tacoma longshoremen, and A History of Seattle Waterfront Workers, 1884-1934. More than a dozen articles have been published in Tacoma’s Pacific Gateway magazine. We are privileged to make each of these publications available in digital form here. Click the links to read the pdf files:
The Working Longshoremen (1991)
- Ch1: The First Tacoma Longshoremen
- Ch2: Boom and Bust
- Ch3: A New Beginning
- Ch4: The Time of Troubles
- Ch5: Fight to the Finish
- Ch6: The Scab Hall
- Ch7: Postwar Turmoil
- Ch8: Tacoma Reorganizes the Northwest
- Ch9: The 1934 Maritime Strike
- Ch10: Into the Lion's Mouth
- Ch11: Technology and Change on the Tacoma Waterfront
- Sources/ Labor and Waterfront Terms
A History of Seattle Waterfront Workers,
1884-1934 (1991)
- Ch1: From Triumph to Tragedy
- Ch2: Hard Times
- Ch3:Down But Not Out
- Ch4: Victory and Defeat
- Ch5: Quest for Coastwide Unity
- Ch6: The Fink Hall
- Ch7: The Radical Era
- Ch8: The List
- Ch9: Decasualization
- Ch10: The Test of Wills
- Ch11: Awakening
- Ch12: The Big Strike
- Ch13: Showdown
- Notes
- Sources
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