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Registering interest : waterfront labor relations in New Zealand, 1953 to 2000
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ISBN: 0973007354 1786944693 1786949105 Year: 2003 Volume: 25 Publisher: St. John's, Nfld. : International Maritime Economic History Association,

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This study is bookended by two major events in New Zealand's maritime history. The first is the 1951 waterfront dispute that led to the dissolution of the Waterside Workers' Union (WWU) and the creation of twenty-six port unions in its place. The second is a mirror event occuring in 2001, where a reconsitituted WWU and two other unions competed for members, leading to widespread protest. Though historians have treated the events leading up to 1951 with interest, little attention has been given to the fifty-year period between events, a history which this journal attempts to fill. Author James Reveley considers the following questions in his history of union-management interactions. Firstly, why employer prerogative did not increase after the 1951 dissolution of the WWU; second, how the unions regained power so quickly; and third, why the WWU's substantial industrial power was so friable during the 1990s. The conclusion assesses the relationship between government and unions, and believes that union response when facing globalisation within maritime industries, which alliances they will form, for example, will have a significant impact on the future direction of maritime activity in New Zealand.


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Mémoires van een havenarbeider.
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ISBN: 9061681448 Year: 1980 Publisher: Socialistiese uitg.

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Occupational commitment and the mystique of self-employment among Lagos (Nigeria) port and dock workers
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ISBN: 0773499512 Year: 1992 Publisher: San Francisco (Calif.): Mellen Research University Press

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Tracing your docker ancestors
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ISBN: 1526744058 9781526744050 9781526744043 9781526744074 1526744074 Year: 2019 Publisher: Barnsley, South Yorkshire

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Labour relations on the docks
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ISBN: 0347010024 Year: 1973 Publisher: Farnborough Saxon House

Banjo : a story without a plot
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ISBN: 0156106752 Year: 1957 Publisher: San Diego, Calif. Harcourt Brace


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Working on the dock of the bay
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ISBN: 1611178576 1611174740 1611174759 9781611174755 9781611174748 9781611178579 Year: 2015 Publisher: Columbia, South Carolina

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An examination of the role and struggles of enslaved dock workers shortly after emancipation

Arbeitswelt an der Wasserkante : Socialgeschichte der Hamburger Hafenarbeiter 1886-1914
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ISBN: 3525357222 Year: 1984 Volume: Bd. 63 Publisher: Göttingen Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht

Shipping in China
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ISBN: 0754618005 1351900269 1315243172 9781351900263 9780754618003 9781351900256 1351900250 9781315243177 9781351900249 9781138258228 Year: 2002 Publisher: Aldershot Ashgate

The union makes us strong : radical unionism on the San Francisco waterfront
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ISBN: 0521450055 0521629683 0511571054 0511883803 Year: 1995 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

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American labour history is typically interpreted by scholars as a history of defeat. Hidden by this conventional wisdom are a handful of militant unions that did not follow the putative Congress of Industrial Organizations trajectory. Based on three years of ethnographic research, this book examines a union that organised itself to systematically challenge management's rule on the shopfloor: San Francisco's longshore union. American unionism looks quite different than conventional wisdom suggests when everyday union practices are observed. American labour's trajectory, this book argues, is neither inevitable nor determined; militant, democratic forms of unionism are possible in the United States; and collective bargaining does not automatically eliminate contests for workplace control. The contract is a bargain that reflects and reproduces fundamental disagreement; it states how production and conflict will proceed.

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