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Handle with care
| 题名： | Handle with care |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | INES NASTALI;FRANK LENNOX-MILLARD |
| 摘要： | When looking at the past doings and living conditions of port workers, there is a lack of research and insight. Radhika Seshan, retired professor from the Department of History at the Savitribai Phule Pune University and a visiting iaculty member at the Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts, Pune, India, said to P&H, "First, we find almost no information about port workers and their lives of the kind that you get in Europe. What we get instead is information about workers from the caste perspective." It seems that in India, the job as dock worker developed from several different ones. "In Fort St George, for instance, we find mentions of the caste of boatmen - possibly fishermen, or, more likely, groups that were both fisher-folk and marginal peasants, working mostly with coconut. As part of the caste system, their skills would have come through family teaching only," said professor Seshan. Further proof that the job as dock worker developed from working with the produce that is being shipped is shown in English and Dutch records, particularly of the Coromandel coast. "It appears that this group of people were also employed to handle the lading and unlading of ships - a typical feature of this coast is that there is always high surf, and a continental shelf that prevents large ships from anchoring close to shore. So, goods were taken off and put onto ships via smaller boats that moved from shore to ship. Again, the references are to the broad category of boatmen," explained professor Seshan. |
| 出版年： | 2022 |
| 期刊名称： | Ports & harbors |
| 卷： | 67 |
| 期： | 2 |
| 页码： | 30-33 |
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