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Research Article

Economic development, cargo handling methods and labour process change: the place of the Vietnamese dock worker in the ‘global’ history of dock work

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Pages 41-58 | Received 25 Jun 2020, Accepted 06 Nov 2020, Published online: 22 Nov 2020

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