Stevedores and Dockers

Stevedores and Dockers
Title Stevedores and Dockers PDF eBook
Author John Lovell
Publisher Springer
Pages 277
Release 1969-06-18
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1349000965

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Hiring of Dock Workers and Employment Practices in the Ports of New York, Liverpool, London, Rotterdam, and Marseilles

Hiring of Dock Workers and Employment Practices in the Ports of New York, Liverpool, London, Rotterdam, and Marseilles
Title Hiring of Dock Workers and Employment Practices in the Ports of New York, Liverpool, London, Rotterdam, and Marseilles PDF eBook
Author Vernon H. Jensen
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 348
Release 1964
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780674392007

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This study provides the opportunity to compare the hiring and employment practices, within the context of local conditions, as they exist in five major ports. It tells how efforts at regulation are influenced by the various institutions and by market constraints and describes the impact of the differences emanating from the industrial relations systems of each of the countries in which the port is located. In all these ports, the basic problem, to a large extent, is still that of casual employment and the author describes the repeated attempts to achieve a solution and analyzes in detail the efforts that failed and those that succeeded.

Dock Workers

Dock Workers
Title Dock Workers PDF eBook
Author Sam Davies
Publisher Routledge
Pages 875
Release 2017-09-29
Genre History
ISBN 1351943243

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Workers who loaded and unloaded ships have formed a distinctive occupational group over the past two centuries. As trade expanded so the numbers of dock labourers increased and became concentrated in the major ports of the world. This ambitious two-volume project goes beyond existing individual studies of dock workers to develop a genuinely comparative international perspective over a long historical period. Volume 1 contains studies of 22 major ports worldwide. Built around an agreed framework of issues, these 'port studies' examine the type of workers who dominated dock labour, their race, class and ethnicity, the working conditions of dockers and the role of government as employer, arbitrator and supporter. The studies also detail how dockers organized their labour, patterns of strike action and involvement in political organizations. The structure of the port city is also outlined and descriptions given of the waterside environment. These areas of investigation form the basis for a series of 11 thematic studies which comprise Volume 2. Drawing on the information provided in the port studies, these essays identify important aspects and recurring themes, and explain how and why particular cases diverge from the rest. The final chapter of the book synthesizes the various approaches taken to offer a model which suggests several configurations of dock labour and presents suggestions for future research. This major scholarly achievement represents the most sustained attempt to date to provide a comparative international history of dock labour. An annotated bibliography completes this essential reference work.

Waterfront Revolts

Waterfront Revolts
Title Waterfront Revolts PDF eBook
Author Colin John Davis
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 276
Release 2003
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780252028786

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Davis also documents struggles by New York black and Hispanic longshoremen against union and employer discrimination and shows how the wildcat strikes in both ports altered the balance of power and facilitated the establishment of viable oppositional movements." "Addressing questions of why dockworkers were such influential and explosive forces in the postwar industrial arena, Waterfront Revolts reveals how workers and trade unions directly influenced cold war politics, the economy, and culture - even across geographical borders."--Jacket.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Library of Congress Subject Headings
Title Library of Congress Subject Headings PDF eBook
Author Library of Congress
Publisher
Pages 1708
Release 2013
Genre Subject headings, Library of Congress
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Library of Congress Subject Headings

Library of Congress Subject Headings
Title Library of Congress Subject Headings PDF eBook
Author Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher
Pages 1688
Release 2009
Genre Subject headings, Library of Congress
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Vital Statistics of the United States

Vital Statistics of the United States
Title Vital Statistics of the United States PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 764
Release 1989
Genre United States
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