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Cargo-Handling Technology, Working Conditions and Industrial Relations on the Fremantle Waterfront
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This chapter considers in great detail the cargo-handling practices of Fremantle. It follows the breakdown of industrial relations and the creation of unemployment that occurred when forklift and pallet technology made the majority of wharf labourer jobs redundant.
Title: Cargo-Handling Technology, Working Conditions and Industrial Relations on the Fremantle Waterfront
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This chapter considers in great detail the cargo-handling practices of Fremantle.
It follows the breakdown of industrial relations and the creation of unemployment that occurred when forklift and pallet technology made the majority of wharf labourer jobs redundant.
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