247
Views
2
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Strikingly indifferent: the myth of militancy on the docks prior to World War II

Pages 271-285 | Published online: 08 Jun 2013

References

  • Allen , P. T. 1984 . The Class Imagery of “Traditional Proletarians . The British Journal of Sociology , 35 : 93 – 111 .
  • Andersen , Svend Aage . 2000 . “ Danish Dock Workers: Aarhus, 1870–1970 ” . In Dock Workers. International Explorations in Comparative Labour History, 1790–1970 , Edited by: Davies , Sam , Davis , Colin J. , de Vries , David , van Voss , Lex Heerma , Hesselink , Lidewij and Weinhauer , Klaus . 15 – 37 . Aldershot : Ashgate .
  • Arrighi , Giovanni . 1982 . “ A Crisis of Hegemony ” . In Dynamics of Global Crisis , Edited by: Amin , Samir , Arrighi , Giovanni , Gunder Frank , Andre and Wallerstein , Immanuel . 55 – 108 . New York : Monthly Review Press .
  • Arrighi , Giovanni and Silver , Beverly J. 1984 . “ The United States and Western Europe in World-Historical Perspective ” . In Labor in the Capitalist World-Economy , Edited by: Bergquist , Charles . Beverly Hills, CA : Sage .
  • Barnes , Charles B. 1977 [1915] . The Longshoremen , New York : Arno Press .
  • Barzman , John . 2000 . “ Dock Labour in Le Havre 1790–1970 ” . In Dock Workers. International Explorations in Comparative Labour History, 1790–1970 , Edited by: Davies , Sam , Davis , Colin J. , de Vries , David , van Voss , Lex Heerma , Hesselink , Lidewij and Weinhauer , Klaus . Aldershot : Ashgate .
  • Bergholm , Tapio . 1996 . Masculinity, Violence and Disunity: Waterfront Strikers and Strikebreakers in Finnish Ports in the 1920s and 1930s . International Journal of Maritime History , 8 : 23 – 42 .
  • Broeze , Frank . 1991 . Militancy and Pragmatism. An International Perspective on Maritime Labour, 1870–1914 . International Review of Social History , 36 : 165 – 200 .
  • Chisholm , Jessie . 2000 . “To Utilize the Organized of All for the Welfare of Each”: Dock Labour in St John's, Newfoundland, 1880–1921 ” . In International Explorations in Comparative Labour History, 1790–1970 , Edited by: Davies , Sam , Davis , Colin J. , de Vries , David , van Voss , Lex Heerma , Hesselink , Lidewij and Weinhauer , Klaus . 141 – 159 . Aldershot : Ashgate .
  • Chisholm , Jessie . 2000 . “ Waterfront Conflict: Dockers' Strategies and Collective Actions ” . In Dock Workers. International Explorations in Comparative Labour History, 1790–1970 , Edited by: Davies , Sam , Davis , Colin J. , de Vries , David , van Voss , Lex Heerma , Hesselink , Lidewij and Weinhauer , Klaus . Aldershot : Ashgate .
  • Clegg , H. A. 1979 . The Changing System of Industrial Relations in Great Britain , Oxford : Blackwell .
  • Cooper , Frederick . 2000 . “ Dockworkers and Labour History ” . In Dock Workers. International Explorations in Comparative Labour History, 1790–1970 , Edited by: Davies , Sam , Davis , Colin J. , de Vries , David , van Voss , Lex Heerma , Hesselink , Lidewij and Weinhauer , Klaus . 523 – 541 . Aldershot : Ashgate .
  • Davies , Sam , Davis , Colin J. , de Vries , David , van Voss , Lex Heerma , Hesselink , Lidewij and Weinhauer , Klaus , eds. 2000 . Dock Workers. International Explorations in Comparative Labour History, 1790–1970 , Aldershot : Ashgate .
  • Edwards , P. K. 1977 . A Critique of the Kerr–Siegel Hypothesis of Strikes and the Isolated Mass: A Study of the Falsification of Sociological Knowledge . Sociological Review , 25 : 551 – 574 .
  • Edwards , P. K. 1983 . “ The Pattern of Collective Industrial Action ” . In Industrial Relations in Britain , Edited by: Sayers Bain , George . 209 – 234 . Oxford : Basil Blackwell .
  • Fishback , Price V. 1995 . An Alternative View of Violence in Labor Disputes in the Early 1900s: The Bituminous Coal Industry, 1890–1930 . Labor History , 36 : 426 – 456 .
  • Flink , Ingvar . 1978 . Strejkbryteriet och Arbetets Frihet: En Studie av Svensk Arbetsmarknad fram Till 1938 [Strike-Breaking and the Freedom of Labour: A Study of the Swedish Labour Market up to 1938] , Uppsala : University .
  • Franzosi , Roberto . 1995 . The Puzzle of Strikes: Class and State Strategies in Postwar Italy , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
  • Green , Anna . 2000 . “ New Zealand Waterside Workers in Auckland, Wellington and Lyttelton, 1915–1951 ” . In Dock Workers. International Explorations in Comparative Labour History, 1790–1970 , Edited by: Davies , Sam , Davis , Colin J. , de Vries , David , van Voss , Lex Heerma , Hesselink , Lidewij and Weinhauer , Klaus . 251 – 268 . Aldershot : Ashgate .
  • Green , Anna . 2000 . “ The Work Process ” . In Dock Workers. International Explorations in Comparative Labour History, 1790–1970 , Edited by: Davies , Sam , Davis , Colin J. , de Vries , David , van Voss , Lex Heerma , Hesselink , Lidewij and Weinhauer , Klaus . 560 – 579 . Aldershot : Ashgate .
  • Griffin , L. J. 1984 . Reviewers' Comments . American Sociological Review , 49 : 412 – 421 .
  • Hobsbawm , Eric J. 1964 . Labouring Men: Studies in the History of Labour , London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson .
  • Hulden , Vilja . 2013 . Three Cheers for Data! Interviews with Beverly Silver and Sjaak van der Velden . Workers of the World , 1 ( 2 ) : 231 – 247 . http://www.workersoftheworldjournal.net/images/WW_2_final.pdf
  • Hyman , Richard . 1972 . Strikes , Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire and London : Macmillan Press .
  • Johnson , Linda Cooke . 2000 . “ Dock Labour at Shanghai ” . In Dock Workers. International Explorations in Comparative Labour History, 1790–1970 , Edited by: Davies , Sam , Davis , Colin J. , de Vries , David , van Voss , Lex Heerma , Hesselink , Lidewij and Weinhauer , Klaus . Aldershot : Ashgate .
  • Kenefick , William . 2000 . “ A Struggle for Recognition and Independence: The Growth and Development of Dock Unionism at the Port of Glasgow, c.1853–1932 ” . In Dock Workers. International Explorations in Comparative Labour History, 1790–1970 , Edited by: Davies , Sam , Davis , Colin J. , de Vries , David , van Voss , Lex Heerma , Hesselink , Lidewij and Weinhauer , Klaus . 319 – 341 . Aldershot : Ashgate .
  • Kerr , Clark and Siegel , Abraham . 1954 . “ The Interindustry Propensity to Strike: An International Comparison ” . In Industrial Conflict , Edited by: Kornhauser , A. , Dubin , R. and Ross , A. M. 189 – 212 . New York : McGraw-Hill .
  • Kimeldorf , Howard . 1988 . Reds or Rackets?: The Making of Radical and Conservative Unions on the Waterfront , Berkeley : University of California Press .
  • Kochan , Thomas A. and Katz , Harry C. 1988 . Collective Bargaining and Industrial Relations. From Theory to Policy and Practice , Homewood, IL : Irwin .
  • Lee , W. R. 2000 . “ From Guild Membership to Causalisation: Dockworkers in Bremen, c.1860–1939 ” . In Dock Workers. International Explorations in Comparative Labour History, 1790–1970 , Edited by: Davies , Sam , Davis , Colin J. , de Vries , David , van Voss , Lex Heerma , Hesselink , Lidewij and Weinhauer , Klaus . 342 – 364 . Aldershot : Ashgate .
  • Levinson , Harold M. 1967 . Unionism, Concentration, and Wage Changes: Toward a Unified Theory . Industrial and Labor Relations Review , 20 : 198 – 205 .
  • Lockwood , David . 1966 . Sources of Variation in Working-Class Images of Society . Sociological Review , 14 : 249 – 267 .
  • Miller , Raymond Charles . 1969 . The Dockworker Subculture and Some Problems in Cross-Cultural and Cross-Time Generalizations . Comparative Studies in Society and History , 11 : 302 – 314 .
  • Nelson , Bruce . 2000 . “ Longshoremen in the Port of New York, 1850–1940 ” . In Dock Workers. International Explorations in Comparative Labour History, 1790–1970 , Edited by: Davies , Sam , Davis , Colin J. , de Vries , David , van Voss , Lex Heerma , Hesselink , Lidewij and Weinhauer , Klaus . 386 – 404 . Aldershot : Ashgate .
  • Perrone , Luca . 1983 . Positional Power and Propensity to Strike . Politics & Society , 12 : 231 – 261 .
  • Perrone , Luca . 1984 . Positional Power, Strikes and Wages . American Sociological Review , 49 : 412 – 426 .
  • Shorter , Edward and Tilly , Charles . 1974 . Strikes in France, 1830–1968 , London : Cambridge University Press .
  • Silver , Beverly J. 1995 . Labor Unrest and World-System Analysis. Premises, Concepts, and Measurement . Review (Fernand Braudel Centre) , 18 : 7 – 34 .
  • Silver , Beverly J. 2003 . Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization Since 1870 , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
  • Silver , Beverly J. , Arrighi , Giovanni and Dubofsky , Melvyn , eds. 1995 . Labor Unrest in the World Economy, 1870–1990 1 – 206 . special issue of Review (Fernand Braudel Center)
  • Statistics New Zealand . The New Zealand Official Yearbook, 1938–1941 Accessed June 10, 2012. http://www.stats.govt.nz
  • Talley , W. K. 2000 . Ocean Container Shipping: Impacts of a Technological Improvement . Journal of Economic Issues , 34 : 933 – 948 .
  • Taplin , Eric . 1986 . The Dockers' Union: A Study of the National Union of Dock Labourers, 1889–1922 , Leicester : Leicester University Press .
  • Taplin , Eric . 2000 . “ History of Dock Labour: Liverpool, c.1850–1914 ” . In Dock Workers. International Explorations in Comparative Labour History, 1790–1970 , Edited by: Davies , Sam , Davis , Colin J. , de Vries , David , van Voss , Lex Heerma , Hesselink , Lidewij and Weinhauer , Klaus . 442 – 470 . Aldershot : Ashgate .
  • Tidman , Yngve . 1998 . Spräng Amalthea! Arbete, Facklig Kamp och Strejkbryteri i Nordvästeuropeiska Hamnar 1870–1914 [Sink the ‘Amalthea’! Work, Union Struggle and Strike-Breaking in Northwest European and Scandinavian Ports in 1870–1914] , Malmö : Lund University Press .
  • Tull , Malcolm . 1985 . American Technology and the Mechanisation of Australian Ports 1942–1958 . The Journal of Transport History , 6 : 79 – 90 .
  • Tull , Malcolm . 2000 . “ Waterfront Labour at Fremantle, 1890–1990 ” . In Dock Workers. International Explorations in Comparative Labour History, 1790–1970 , Edited by: Davies , Sam , Davis , Colin J. , de Vries , David , van Voss , Lex Heerma , Hesselink , Lidewij and Weinhauer , Klaus . 471 – 493 . Aldershot : Ashgate .
  • Turnbull , Peter . 1992 . Dock Strikes and the Demise of the Dockers' “Occupational Culture” . The Sociological Review , 40 : 294 – 318 .
  • Turnbull , Peter . 2000 . Contesting Globalization on the Waterfront . Politics & Society , 28 : 367 – 391 .
  • Turnbull , Peter . 2006 . The War on Europe's Waterfront: Repertoires of Power in the Port Transport Industry . British Journal of Industrial Relations , 44 : 305 – 326 .
  • Turnbull , Peter and Sapsford , David . 1991 . Why Did Devlin Fail? Casualism and Conflict on the Docks . British Journal of Industrial Relations , 29 : 237 – 257 .
  • Turnbull , Peter and Sapsford , David . 2001 . Hitting the Bricks: An International Comparative Study of Conflict on the Waterfront . Industrial Relations , 40 : 231 – 257 .
  • Turnbull , Peter , Morris , Julia and Sapsford , David . 1996 . Persistent Militants and Quiescent Comrades: Intra-Industry Strike Activity on the Docks, 1947–1989 . The Sociological Review , 44 : 692 – 721 .
  • van der Velden, Sjaak. “Rotterdam Dockers: A Vanguard of the Dutch Working-Class?.”. Paper presented at Strikes and Social Conflicts in the Twentieth Century, Lisbon, Portugal, March 17–19, 2011
  • Wallace , M. , Griffin , L. J. and Rubin , B. A. 1989 . The Positional Power of American Labor, 1963–1977 . American Sociological Review , 54 : 197 – 214 .
  • Walsh , Kenneth . 1983 . Strikes in Europe and the United States. Measurement and Incidence , London : Frances Pinter .
  • Weinhauer , Klaus . 1997 . Labour Market, Work Mentality and Syndicalism: Dock Labour in the United States and Hamburg, 1900–1950s . International Review of Social History , 42 : 219 – 252 .
  • Weinhauer , Klaus . 2000 . “ Power and Control on the Waterfront: Casual Labour and Descasualisation ” . In Dock Workers. International Explorations in Comparative Labour History, 1790–1970 , Edited by: Davies , Sam , Davis , Colin J. , de Vries , David , van Voss , Lex Heerma , Hesselink , Lidewij and Weinhauer , Klaus . 580 – 603 . Aldershot : Ashgate .
  • Weitz , Eric D. 1985 . Class Formation and Labor Protest in the Mining Communities of Southern Illinois and the Ruhr, 1890–1925 . Labor History , 27 : 85 – 105 .
  • Wilson , David F. 1972 . Dockers: The Impact of Industrial Change , London : Fontana/Collins .
  • Wright , Eric Olin . 1984 . Postscript . American Sociological Review , 49 : 421 – 425 .
  • Wright , Eric Olin . 2000 . Working-Class Power, Capitalist-Class Interests, and Class Compromise . American Journal of Sociology , 105 : 957 – 1002 .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.