The Labour Force

John Lovell
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Chapter 2 in Stevedores and Dockers, 1969, pp 30-58 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The growth of the port of London, as we saw in the previous chapter, was entirely without plan. In fact until the creation of the P.L.A. in 1908 the port did not even exist as a formal institution. It was merely an unregulated meeting-place for a vast number of diverse interests—shipowners, wharfingers, lighterage concerns, merchants, dock companies. After 1908 there was some regulation, but the meeting-place remained as crowded and as full of diversity as before. In this situation it would indeed have been surprising if the port’s labour force had formed a homogeneous body. In fact, of course, port workers were as lacking in cohesion as the industrial complex that gave them employment. They were subdivided into numerous occupational groupings, and in the early days these groupings were no more bound together by a sense of common interest than were the port employers.

Keywords: Labour Force; Quay Crane; Occupational Grouping; Employment Structure; Port Worker (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1969
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-00096-8_2

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