Dock Workers

Author : Vernon H. Jensen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674392000

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Hiring of Dock Workers and Employment Practices in the Ports of New York, Liverpool, London, Rotterdam, and Marseilles by Vernon H. Jensen Pdf

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.

Author : Sam Davies,Colin J. Davis,David de Vries,Lex Heerma van Voss,Lidewij Hesselink,Klaus Weinhauer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351943253

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Dock Workers by Sam Davies,Colin J. Davis,David de Vries,Lex Heerma van Voss,Lidewij Hesselink,Klaus Weinhauer Pdf

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.

Author : Department of Social Science
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1956-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781837649044

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The Dock Worker by Department of Social Science Pdf

An analysis of conditions of employment in the port of Manchester, this 1956 study is based on enquiries conducted in 1950-51.

Author : Peter Cole
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0252042077

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Dockworker Power by Peter Cole Pdf

Dockworkers have power. Often missed in commentary on today's globalizing economy, workers in the world's ports can harness their role, at a strategic choke point, to promote their labor rights and social justice causes. Peter Cole brings such overlooked experiences to light in an eye-opening comparative study of Durban, South Africa, and the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Path-breaking research reveals how unions effected lasting change in some of the most far-reaching struggles of modern times. First, dockworkers in each city drew on longstanding radical traditions to promote racial equality. Second, they persevered when a new technology--container ships--sent a shockwave of layoffs through the industry. Finally, their commitment to black internationalism and leftist politics sparked transnational work stoppages to protest apartheid and authoritarianism. Dockworker Power not only brings to light surprising parallels in the experiences of dockers half a world away from each other. It also offers a new perspective on how workers can change their conditions and world.

Author : Alan Branch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400940871

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Elements of Port Operation and Management by Alan Branch Pdf

Since the publication of my books Elements of Shipping and more recently Economics of Shipping Practice and Management, both selling in over 130 countries, I have received numerous requests both from home and abroad for a companion volume on seaports. This book has been written to provide a practical, overall under standing of the elements of port operation and management of a competitive,~profitable port authority. It reflects the author's many years of experience in port and ship management, international trade and education. It deals in simple language with the role and function of seaports in a trading pattern, port investment criteria, port tariffs, free ports and free trade zones, port traffic control, budgetary control and marketing, port management structure and dock labour, computerization, cargo-handling equipment, the eco nomics of port design, the role of port cargo-handling organiza tions, the economics of international trade, finance of international trade, and many other aspects of this extensive subject. The import ance of complete professionalism in all areas of port practice as a means of providing the viable, high quality service required to sustain and expand international trade cannot be overemphasized. This book will help towards establishing that professionalism. The material assembled here is intended not only for students preparing for seaport examinations, but also for persons employed in port authorities. In short, it is an aide-memoire to those engaged in the industry throughout the world and may be regarded as 'the porr executive's handbook'.

Author : Great Britain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1528 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Delegated legislation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062850115

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Statutory Rules and Orders Other Than Those of a Local, Personal Or Temporary Character by Great Britain Pdf

Author : Great Britain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Law
ISBN : UCAL:B4955051

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The Statutory Rules and Orders Revised by Great Britain Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : India
ISBN : UCAL:B3075918

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Bhārata Kā Rājapatra by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Nirali Prakashan
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8185790833

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Labour welfare and industrial hygiene by Anonim Pdf

Author : Virginia Hoel
Publisher : Uitgeverij Verloren
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Merchant mariners
ISBN : 9789087045647

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Faith, Fatherland and the Norwegian Seaman by Virginia Hoel Pdf

Author : G. S. Bain,Gillian B. Woolven,G. B. Woolven
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1979-03-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521215471

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A Bibliography of Industrial Relations by G. S. Bain,Gillian B. Woolven,G. B. Woolven Pdf

Reference book comprising a bibliography aiming to bring together secondary source interdisciplinary material on labour relations in the UK between the years 1880 and 1970 - covers employees attitudes, trade unions and employees associations, employers organizations, the labour market and working conditions, etc.

Author : Neil Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Industrial policy
ISBN : UVA:35007001444698

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The Abolition of the Dock Labour Scheme by Neil Evans Pdf

Partly based on a survey carried out in 1992. Assesses the impact of the removal of regulations in 1989 distinguishing between so-called scheme ports handling the bulk of sea trade and non-scheme ports or smaller facilities. Finds overall decline in port-related employment, wage earnings and working conditions. Concludes that the removal of the National Dock Labour Board has led to a decline in union influence, training activities and occupational safety.

Author : Allison Akene Ayida
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Stevedores
ISBN : IND:30000129345421

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Report on the Reorganisation of the Dock Labour Industry in Nigerian Ports by Allison Akene Ayida Pdf

Report comprising proposals to increase the efficiency of the dock labour industry and cargo handling operations in Nigerian ports - examines means of improving the labour productivity and welfare of dockers and covers ownership, contract labour, financing and administrative aspects.

Author : Great Britain. National Dock Labour Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Stevedores
ISBN : CORNELL:31924002301954

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Review of the Work of the National Dock Labour Board 1947-1949, as Submitted to the National Joint Council for the Port Transport Industry by Great Britain. National Dock Labour Board Pdf

Author : Edward Charles Ponsonby Lascelles,Samuel Stevenson Bullock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Casual labor
ISBN : UOM:39015013512937

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Dock Labour and Decasualisation by Edward Charles Ponsonby Lascelles,Samuel Stevenson Bullock Pdf