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

Collection:: Economics Books

: PORT ECONOMICS An important accompaniment of this proposal is the formation of a fund, called “ Maintenance,” for the subsistence of those on the register who are not fortunate enough to obtain employment. This fund, as advocated by the men’s leaders, would be mainly supported from a levy on the employed men, and, it is suggested, by con- tributions from the State, or from the port, to be raised by additional imposts on goods—a proposition of doubtful public economy. The maintenance part of the proposal has not, up to the time of writing, taken definite shape, and it contains much scope for debate, but the registration of dock labourers at ports is proceeding with encouraging speed. A certain number of ports have had a register in force for some time. At the port of London, under the Port of London Authority, the men available are classified under these heads : Permanent men, B men and C men. Both B and C men are intermittently employed, and the only difference between the two classes is that B men have the preference for engagement over C men, which, in view of the conditions, means that the chance of employment of C men, dependent as it is on the exhaustion of the list of B men, is exceedingly remote, except during times of great pressure of work. As a rule, dock labourers are engaged by a process known as “calling on.” Whenever a ship arrives at its berth, or at ports where that is a regular and frequent occurrence, then each day, first thing in the morning and at noon, the men present themselves at an assigned place in crowded, and even tumultuous, formation round the foremen, who engage the labour they require by a process of individual selection, calling by name those whom they know and indicating others after inspection to complete their lists. There are, in such cases, numerous allegations of favouritism, and even of bribery, which may, or may not, be well founded, but it is undoubtedly a system which can lead to abuse. 106

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