It is common to use the terms "stevedore" and "longshoreman" interchangeably. He worked as a day laborer and a longshoreman, loading and unloading ships. His father, David, was a longshoreman and his mother, Nathalie, worked at a cannery. He was the son of a longshoreman and mechanic and a homemaker. Instead, he began work as a longshoreman on the docks of San Francisco in 1943. After his father's death in 1950 Yacine worked as a longshoreman in Algiers. The postwar era was characterized by a flourishing waterfront, and longshoreman work was plentiful. It is revealed that his father was a longshoreman who worked for United Fruit Company. At age 16, Scotto started working as a longshoreman on the Brooklyn waterfront. Goethals is a longshoreman at the Port Of Ghent. After the divorce, the children lived with their father, a longshoreman. Huggins attended high school and worked as a warehouseman, longshoreman, and porter. Before Philbrick began writing full-time, he worked as a longshoreman and boat builder. He also worked as a longshoreman. He is a longshoreman, hoping to be a cashier; she wants to be an actress.