Harvey Schwartz
Harvey Schwartz

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Harvey Schwartz is curator of the ILWU Oral History Collection at the union’s library in San Francisco. His most recent book is <em>Labor Under Siege</em> with Ronald E. Magden. Other books include <em>The March Inland: Origins of the ILWU Warehouse Division, 1934-1938 </em>(1978; rpt. ILWU 2000)<em>; Solidarity Stories: An Oral History of the ILWU</em> (2009); and <em>Building the Golden Gate Bridge: A Workers’ Oral History</em> (2015). He holds a Ph.D. in history from The University of California, Davis.
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The ILWU History Project

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