Contents: Part One - Introduction: Towards a comparative international history of dockers, Sam Davies and Klaus Weinhauer; Part Two - Port Studies: Danish dock workers: Aarhus, 1870-1970, Svend Aage Andersen; Race and labour in a Southern U.S. port: New Orleans, 1860-1930, Eric Arneson; Dock labour in Le Havre, 1790-1970, John Barzman; Dockers of Turku, c.1880-1970, Kari Teräs and Tapio Bergholm ; Longshoremen of San Francisco Bay, 1849-1960, Robert W. Cherny; 'To utilize the organized strength of all for the welfare of each': dock labour in St. John's, Newfoundland, 1880-1921, Jessie Chisholm; Port labour in a colonial society: Mombasa, 1850-1965, Frederick Cooper; The history of Hull dockers, c.1870-1960, Sam Davies; New York city and London, 1945-60, Colin J. Davis; Nationalism and the making of dock labour in British-ruled Palestine, David De Vries; New Zealand waterside workers in Auckland, Wellington and Lyttelton, 1915-51, Anna Green; Dock labour at Shanghai, Linda Cooke Johnson;The war of clubs: life, labour and struggles of the Tanga dockworkers, Frederick J.

Kaijage; A struggle for recognition and independence: the growth and development of dock unionism at the port of Glasgow, c.1853-1932, William Kenefick; From guild membership to casualisation: dockworkers in Bremen, c.1860-1939, W. R. Lee; The port of London, 1790-1970, Roy Mankelow; Longshoremen in the port of New York, 1850-1940, Bruce Nelson; Undeserving casuals: Rotterdam dockers and their unions, 1880-1965, Erik Nijhof; Godis, tolis and mathadis: dock workers of Bombay, Mariam Dossal Panjwani; The history of dock labour: Liverpool, c.1850-1914, Eric Taplin; Waterfront labour at Fremantle, 1890-1990, Malcolm Tull; Dock labour in Hamburg: the labour market, the labour movement and industrial relations, 1880s-1960s, Klaus Weinhauer; Part Three - Thematic Studies: Dockworkers and labour history, Frederick Cooper; Formation and reproduction of dockers as an occupational group, Colin J. Davis; The work process, Anna Green; Power and control on the waterfront: casual labour and decasualisation, Klaus Weinhauer; Employers and dock labour: employment, work and industrial relations in international perspective, Sam Davies; States and dockers: from harbour designers to labour managers, John Barzman; Ethnicity, race and the logic of solidarity: dock workers in international perspective, Bruce Nelson; The construction of the image of dock labour, David De Vries; Waterfront conflict: dockers' strategies and collective actions, Jessie Chisholm; Criminality on the docks, Linda Cooke Johnson; Space as determinant: neighbourhoods, clubs and other strategies of survival, Mariam Dossal Panjwani; Dockers' configurations, Lex Heerma van Voss and Marcel van der Linden; The history of dock labour: an annotated bibliography, Lidewij Hesselink; Index.