"This volume investigates the ambition of the Red International of Labour Unions to radicalize the global waterfront during the interwar period. The main vehicle was the International Propaganda Committee of Transport Workers, replaced in 1930 by the International of Seamen and Harbour Workers...

This Article studies both inconsistent and indecisive judicial interpretations of The Longshoremen and Harbor Worker's Compensation Act and calls for congressional action to end the stark disparities in coverage between landward work conduct for maritime workers when boing between ship and...

We investigate how individual workers and local labour markets adjust over a long time period to a discrete and plausibly exogenous technological shock, namely the introduction of containerisation in the UK port industry. This technology, which was introduced rapidly between the mid-1960s and...

We investigate how individual workers and local labour markets adjust over a long time period to a discrete and plausibly exogenous technological shock, namely the introduction of containerisation in the UK port industry. This technology, which was introduced rapidly between the mid-1960s and...

Upon request of the PETI committee, the present study examines the issues raised in Petition 0336/2012, the legal framework on the protection of pigs, the level of implementation of the Directive on the protection of pigs in relation to tail-docking on the basis of the available information, the...

Upon request of the PETI committee, the present study examines the issues raised in Petition 0336/2012, the legal framework on the protection of pigs, the level of implementation of the Directive on the protection of pigs in relation to tail-docking on the basis of the available information, the...

The part of the port industry that serves international trade flows, competes and satisfies demand with global characteristics. Port services production and supply, within an open market, can only be governed by global regulations, and should be taken into account by those who wish to implement...

We investigate how individual workers and local labour markets adjust over a long time period to a discrete and plausibly exogenous technological shock, namely the introduction of containerisation in the UK port industry. This technology, which was introduced rapidly between the mid-1960s and...

The decline of seaports and the appearance of derelict waterfronts became a topic for discussion, research and urban planning, in the context of local and global restructuring, since the 1960s. The ‘waterfront’ represents that edge of the port city where water and land meet, where sea...

This study is part of a continuing program of research into the performance of economic infrastructure industries, which was commenced by the Bureau of Industry Economics. It is the third Waterfront Benchmarking report in the cycle. The study builds on the two previous waterfront studies by...

The Docks is an eye-opening journey into a giant madhouse of activity that few outsiders ever see: the Port of Los Angeles. In a book woven throughout with riveting novelist detail and illustrated with photographs that capture the frenetic energy of the place, Bill Sharpsteen tells the story of...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: In Search of Local 8 -- 1. Philadelphia: "The Workshop of the World -- 2. Wobblies Take the Docks -- 3. There Is Power in a Union -- 4. War on the Waterfront -- 5. Onward One Big Union? -- 6....

Die Herausgeber, Professoren an der Universität Bremen, gehen einen guten Einblick in eine Welt, die öffentlich nicht in Erscheinung tritt, die die Globalisierung aber erst möglich macht. Es ist eine realistische Schilderung von Facetten der heutigen Seeschifffahrt, keine historische...