International Explorations in Comparative Labour History, 1790-1970
by
Sam Davies, Lex Heerma van Voss, Klaus Weinhauer
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Workers who loaded and unloaded ships have formed a distinctive occupational group over the past two centuries. As trade expanded so the numbers of dock labourers increased and became concentrated in the major ports of the world. This ambitious two-volume project goes beyond existing individual studies...