Port economics

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Identifikator:: 173564191X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-111718

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cunningham, Brysson http://d-nb.info/gnd/1055472266

Title:: Port economics

Place of publication:: London [usw.]

Publisher:: Pitman

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: IX, 134 S

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter IX. Port organization

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PORT ORGANIZATION 3 employing only a few hands, finds it prudent to encourage the maintenance of a sufficient margin to meet unforeseen contingencies. Economy compels such an employer to reduce his regular staff to a minimum and to reinforce it strictly as occasion requires. He has no wish to pay wages to supernumeraries. Finally, the men themselves are of a class which looks with disfavour on continuous and regular employment. Many of them object to working steadily throughout the week. They have a preference, expressed or implied, for several days’ work followed by a period of idleness. Moreover, they are suspicious of schemes, which, if put into execution, would eliminate a portion of their number. There is innate conservatism and dislike of change, accompanied by a resentment of any form of control over their movements, which would necessarily be involved in organized superintendence. Yet, in spite of these difficulties, it must be agreed that the evils of casual employment are such as to demand earnest and determined efforts for its elimination. Men frequently or constantly under-employed, in large numbers, are a menace and danger to society. They deteriorate in character, and, becoming gradually demoralized, threaten disturbance to the body politic. Moreover, their families suffer in health and well-being, and the men themselves become physically unfit for the hard work which they perform at uncertain intervals. Despite certain objections to it on various grounds, the most hopeful proposition put forward in the way of a solution of the problem is the establishment at each port of a register of dock labourers, to form a nucleus for whom continuous employment can be assured, together with a surplus or margin of the smallest dimensions consistent with the circumstances. 1 Vide Report of Committee of Enquiry concerning ‘‘ Transport Work : Wages and Conditions of Employment of Dock Labour "'— generally known as the Shaw Report, 1920. 10-

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