Off the waterfront: the long-run impact of technological change on dock workers
"We investigate how individual workers and local labour markets adjust over a long time period to a discrete and plausibly exogenous technological shock, namely the introduction of containerisation in the UK port industry. This technology, which was introduced rapidly between the mid-1960s and...
Main Authors: | El-Sahli, Zouheir, Upward, Richard |
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Institution: | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
Format: | TEXT |
Language: | English |
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Nottingham
2015
University of Nottingham |
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Online Access: | https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19113397124919315799-off-the-waterfront-the-long-ru.htm |
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