Hiring of dock workers Jensen 1964 Harva

Hiring of dock workers Jensen 1964 Harvard good hardcover
Synopsis:
This study provides the opportunity to compare the hiring and employment practices, within the context of local conditions, as they exist in five major ports. It tells how efforts at regulation are influenced by the various institutions and by market constraints and describes the impact of the differences emanating from the industrial relations systems of each of the countries in which the port is located. In all these ports, the basic problem, to a large extent, is still that of casual employment and the author describes the repeated attempts to achieve a solution and analyzes in detail the efforts that failed and those that succeeded.

From the Back Cover:
In this book, the hiring arrangements and employment practices at five major ports--New York, Liverpool, London, Rotterdam, and Marseilles--are described ad compared to show the extent to which the dock labor market has been made more orderly.