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Precarious Reforms and the Legacy of Struggle: The Dockers of Marseille-Fos

In: Port Cities and Global Legacies

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If you go to the Bar Phocéen in the commune of Port de Bouc near Marseille at 7:30 am on a weekday morning, you’d find a group of dockers having coffee and chatting (Figure 6.1). The Bar Phocéen is the western Marseille-Fos1dockers’ favourite café, just across the street from their hiring hall (Figure 6.2). The hiring hall at Port de Bouc is one of two main hiring halls in the western port of Marseille-Fos, and according to the dockers, it is one of the last old casual hiring halls in France (interview, 22 June 2010). This is a source of pride for the dockers, for it is a relic of the old union-controlled labour pool system in France, which was introduced in 1947 and then slowly phased out after the national port reforms of 1992 and 2008. Dockers report to this hiring hall at eight o’clock each morning to find out where, and if, they will be working that day.

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  • Alice Mah, 2014. "Precarious Reforms and the Legacy of Struggle: The Dockers of Marseille-Fos," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Port Cities and Global Legacies, chapter 6, pages 136-150, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-28314-6_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137283146_6
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