STEVEDORE

Updated 04-May-2020.

Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about STEVEDORE!

Summer Jobs: As a young man, Peter MacKay learned to appreciate Arctic life working as a stevedore: For two summers in my late teens, I worked in the Arctic aboard merchant supply vessels as a stevedore and heavy equipment operator

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: stevedore (), longshoreman, docker, or dockworker is a waterfront manual laborer . after the shipping container revolution of the 1960s, the number of dockworkers required declined by over 90% workers must be physically strong and able to follow orders attentively . there is only a limited amount of time that a ship can be at a port . men who loaded and unloaded ships had to tie down cargoe the methods of securely tying up parcels of goods is called stevedore lashing . while loading a general cargo vessel, they use dunnage . today, the vast majority of non-bulk container offloading is unloaded by a crane when the ship arrives . the containers either leave the port by truck or rail or are put in the storage area until they are put on another ship . as the containers pile up in the jobs involved include crane operators, crane operators and truck drivers . stevedores or longshoremen are likely to be considered by port workers . before containerization, freight was handled with a longshoreman’s hook the term “stevedore” is also sometimes used, as in the company name Patrick Stevedores . in australia this usually refers to a harbor pilot . the Maritime Union of Australia has coverage of these workers the 1951 waterfront dispute was the largest and most bitter industrial dispute in the country’s history . in some ports, only the highly skilled master of a loading gang is referred to as a “stevedore” in the early 19th century, the word was usually applied to slaves who loaded cotton on riverboats . in two years before the mast (1840), the author describes the steeving of a merchant sailing ship . one ethnic group dominated the stevedore market in a port, usually the Irish Catholics . in new york there was competition between the Irish and the blacks. in the port of Baltimore, Polish Americans dominated in the 1930s, about 80% of the Baltimore’s longshoremen were Polish or of Polish descent . the gang system was nearly free of corruption, wildcat strikes, and work stoppages . hiring of longshore “stevedore” and “longshoreman” interchangeably used interchangeably . gangs always operated together as a unit . experience let them know what each member would do at any given time . the intent of the statute was to give the wages of seamen and longshoremen the same level of protection . sometimes the word “stevedore” is used to mean “man who loads and unloads a ship many large container ship operators have established in-house stevedoring operations . one union within the AFL-CIO represents longshoremen: the International Longshoremen’s Association . the international longshore and warehouse former stevedores and longshoremen include: frithjof Bergmann – philosopher . english cricketer Jerry Colonna – movie actor/comedian* . Terry Bollea – better known as Arthur Miller’s play A View from the Bridge (1955) also deals with the troubled life of a longshoreman . the Stevedore Union and its members working in Baltimore figure prominently in the second season’s University Press of Florida. Callebert, Ralph (2017). On Durban’s Docks: Zulu Workers, Rural Households, Global Labor. University of Rochester Press. Davis, Colin J. (2003). Waterfront Revolts: New York and London Dockworkers, 1946–61. Land, Isaac (2007). “Liberty on the Waterfront”. Journal of Social History. 40 (3): 731–743. doi:10.1353/jsh.2007.0051. Mello, William J. (2010). New York Longshoremen: Class and Power on the Docks. Nelson, Bruce (1990). Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoreman, and Unionism in the 1930s. Parnaby, Andrew (2008). “Class and Industrial Relations in Britain: The ‘Long’ Mid-century and the Case of Port Transport, 1920–70”. Twentieth Century British History. 16 (1): 52–73. doi:10.1093/ Safford, Jeffrey J. (2008). “The Pacific Coast Maritime Strike of 1936: Another View”. Pacific Historical Review. 77 (4): 585–615. Vaughan Wilson, Matt (2008). “The 1911 Waterfront Strikes in Glasgow: Trade Unions and Rank-and-File Militancy in the Labour Unrest of 1910–1914”. International Review of Social History doi:10.1017/S0020859008003441. Velasco e Cruz, Maria Ceclia (2006). “Puzzling Out Slave Origins in Rio de Janeiro Port Un “Longshore Workers and Their Unions”. Waterfront Workers History Project. doi:10.1215/00182168-2005-002.