Open AccessFlexibility and Labour Market Restructuring: The Waterfront Industry
Author(s) -
James Reveley
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
labour, employment and work in new zealand
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2463-2600
DOI - 10.26686/lew.v0i0.890
Subject(s) - restructuring , deregulation , typology , flexibility (engineering) , labour economics , labour market flexibility , market economy , classification of discontinuities , business , industrial organization , economics , economic system , unemployment , sociology , management , economic growth , mathematical analysis , mathematics , finance , anthropology
This paper will begin by identifying some of the main features of the industry and their implications for how the employment relationship is constituted, and the specific type of unionism that emerged, on the waterfront. It will then characterize the nature of the labour market that developed within the industry, drawing in a critically selective fashion upon a typology of labour markets developed by Fligstein and Femandez (1988). Finally the main continuities and discontinuities in the labour market following deregulation will be identified.