Power and control on the waterfront: casual labour and decasualisation
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Dock workers: International Explorations in Comparative Labour History, 1790-1970: Volume 2. ed. / Sam Davies; Klaus Weinhauer. Aldershot [u.a.]: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2017. p. 580-603.
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Power and control on the waterfront
T2 - casual labour and decasualisation
AU - Weinhauer, Klaus
N1 - Literaturangaben
PY - 2017/9/29
Y1 - 2017/9/29
N2 - This chapter focuses on labour market organisation and work mentality. It also focuses on structural changes and power relations on the labour market and argues how this affected dock workers' norms and values. The chapter discusses the work culture and labour market organisation in the phase of casual labour. It describes the measures to decasualise dock labour from 1890 to the 1930s. The chapter analyses the developments in the Great Depression and in World War II and the post-World War II period. Local politicians and state officials encountered the problems of casual labour in the form of the overcrowded slum-like underclass precincts close to the waterfront such as the London East-end, the Hamburg Gangeviertel, the Majengo in Mombasa or in the Ngamiani at Tanga, to name only a few. In the main ports of New Zealand the Bureaux were controlled by a joint union-employer board with a neutral chairman.
AB - This chapter focuses on labour market organisation and work mentality. It also focuses on structural changes and power relations on the labour market and argues how this affected dock workers' norms and values. The chapter discusses the work culture and labour market organisation in the phase of casual labour. It describes the measures to decasualise dock labour from 1890 to the 1930s. The chapter analyses the developments in the Great Depression and in World War II and the post-World War II period. Local politicians and state officials encountered the problems of casual labour in the form of the overcrowded slum-like underclass precincts close to the waterfront such as the London East-end, the Hamburg Gangeviertel, the Majengo in Mombasa or in the Ngamiani at Tanga, to name only a few. In the main ports of New Zealand the Bureaux were controlled by a joint union-employer board with a neutral chairman.
KW - Social Work and Social Pedagogics
U2 - 10.4324/9781315257501
DO - 10.4324/9781315257501
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 9780754602644
SN - 0754602648
SP - 580
EP - 603
BT - Dock workers: International Explorations in Comparative Labour History, 1790-1970
A2 - Davies, Sam
A2 - Weinhauer, Klaus
PB - Ashgate Publishing Limited
CY - Aldershot [u.a.]
ER -