How local autonomy was lost a history of stevedoring at Fremantle, 1880 to 1950.

This thesis examines how the stevedoring industry at Fremantle was absorbed into a national framework of port cargo-handling services during the first half of the twentieth century. The process of change compelled a local industry with its own peculiarities to conform to standards imposed by central...

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Main Author: Fletcher, Thomas A.
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 1998
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1420