Cargo-Handling Technology, Working Conditions and Industrial Relations on the Fremantle Waterfront
Cargo-Handling Technology, Working Conditions and Industrial Relations on the Fremantle Waterfront
This chapter considers in great detail the cargo-handling practices of Fremantle. It follows the breakdown of industrial relations and the creation of unemployment that occurred when forklift and pallet technology made the majority of wharf labourer jobs redundant.
Keywords: Wharf Labour, Fremantle Harbour Trust, Maritime Labour, Maritime Unemployment, Maritime Industry
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