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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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Shipping and economic growth 1350-1850
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ISBN: 9789004194397 9004194398 9786613120618 9004194401 1283120615 9789004194403 9781283120616 Year: 2011 Volume: 7 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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In sixteen essays authors explore the dramatic rise in the efficiency of European shipping in the three centuries before the Industrial Revolution. They offer reasons for the greater success of the sector than any other in making better use of labor. They describe the roots - political, organizational, technological, ecological, human - of rising productivity, treating those sources both theoretically and empirically. Comparisons with China show why Europeans came to dominate Asian waters. Building on past research, the volume is a statement of what is known about that critical sector of the early modern European economy and indicates the contribution shipping made to the emergence of the West as the dominant force on the oceans of the world.

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Shipping --- World history --- Labor productivity --- Economic development --- Stevedores --- Transports maritimes --- Productivité --- Développement économique --- Débardeurs --- History. --- History --- Histoire --- Economic development - Europe - History. --- Economic development -- Europe -- History. --- Labor productivity - Europe - History. --- Labor productivity -- Europe -- History. --- Shipping -- Europe -- History. --- Shipping - Europe - History. --- Stevedores - Europe - History. --- Stevedores -- Europe -- History. --- Business & Economics --- Transportation Economics --- Productivité --- Développement économique --- Débardeurs --- Dock hands --- Dockers --- Dockhands --- Dockworkers --- Longshore workers --- Longshoremen --- Shore porters --- Waterfront workers --- Waterside workers --- Wharf labourers --- Wharfies --- Wharfys --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Labor output --- Productivity of labor --- Marine shipping --- Marine transportation --- Maritime shipping --- Ocean --- Ocean traffic --- Ocean transportation --- Sea transportation --- Shipping industry --- Water transportation --- Economic aspects --- Harbor personnel --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Industrial productivity --- Capital productivity --- Hours of labor --- Labor time --- Productivity bargaining --- Communication and traffic --- Marine service --- Transportation --- Merchant marine


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Stouwers, naties en terminal operators : het gewijzigde juridische landschap
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ISBN: 9062158080 Year: 2003 Publisher: Antwerpen Maklu


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Sécurité et santé dans les ports
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ISBN: 9222152875 Year: 2004 Volume: *8 Publisher: Genève Bureau international du Travail


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Een sfeer om haring te braden : arbeidsverhoudingen in de haven van Antwerpen : 1880-1972.
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ISBN: 9038206410 9789038206417 Year: 2005 Publisher: Gent : Academia Press : AMSAB,

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