Dockers in Las Palmas: Technological changes, institutional evolution and waterfront radicalism (1960-2009)

Container shipping has constituted a revolution in trade on a planetary scale. Ports have had to change their infrastructures in order to incorporate the requisite technology, which has modified the historical trade networks around the World. The port of Las Palmas (Canary Islands) adapted its infra...

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Autores principales:	Daniel Castillo Hidalgo, Miguel Suárez Bosa
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Publicado:	Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2016
Materias:	containerization dockers Globalization Anthropology GN1-890 Latin America. Spanish America F1201-3799
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:68f9470a8a404e5c868405000b73fcf22021-12-02T10:31:52ZDockers in Las Palmas: Technological changes, institutional evolution and waterfront radicalism (1960-2009)1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.70004https://doaj.org/article/68f9470a8a404e5c868405000b73fcf22016-12-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/70004https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252Container shipping has constituted a revolution in trade on a planetary scale. Ports have had to change their infrastructures in order to incorporate the requisite technology, which has modified the historical trade networks around the World. The port of Las Palmas (Canary Islands) adapted its infrastructures and its institutional environment in order to develop the container activity that was added to its historical functions as scale port. The main aim of this paper is to explore the changes in port labour organization through the progressive implementation of container activities in Las Palmas. Port activity indicators, regulation, port infrastructures and labour relationships will be analysed with a view to presenting an overall perspective of the changes that have taken place in dock labour since the 1960s.Daniel Castillo HidalgoMiguel Suárez BosaCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes AméricainsarticlecontainerizationdockersGlobalizationAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2016)
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description	Container shipping has constituted a revolution in trade on a planetary scale. Ports have had to change their infrastructures in order to incorporate the requisite technology, which has modified the historical trade networks around the World. The port of Las Palmas (Canary Islands) adapted its infrastructures and its institutional environment in order to develop the container activity that was added to its historical functions as scale port. The main aim of this paper is to explore the changes in port labour organization through the progressive implementation of container activities in Las Palmas. Port activity indicators, regulation, port infrastructures and labour relationships will be analysed with a view to presenting an overall perspective of the changes that have taken place in dock labour since the 1960s.
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title	Dockers in Las Palmas: Technological changes, institutional evolution and waterfront radicalism (1960-2009)
title_short	Dockers in Las Palmas: Technological changes, institutional evolution and waterfront radicalism (1960-2009)
title_full	Dockers in Las Palmas: Technological changes, institutional evolution and waterfront radicalism (1960-2009)
title_fullStr	Dockers in Las Palmas: Technological changes, institutional evolution and waterfront radicalism (1960-2009)
title_full_unstemmed	Dockers in Las Palmas: Technological changes, institutional evolution and waterfront radicalism (1960-2009)
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Dockers in Las Palmas: Technological changes, institutional evolution and waterfront radicalism (1960-2009)

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