Book Review for Citizen Docker

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Book Review for Citizen Docker

Parnaby , Citizen Docker highlights Vancouver port 's road to modernization process that took at the beginning of the twentieth century . The writer mostly emphasizes on the economics of labor at the harbor and the conflict of interest between casual workers and cargo agents . According to Parnaby , the Vancouver port had been the source of living for many laborers without other places to depend on . Despite the plight of harbor casual

workers , governments at different levels did nothing to help . The popularity as of progressive mentalities among the populace and the ruling class did not help much

Work at the port was increasing rapidly and therefore exerted more pressure on the dock workers to improve respective productivity and efficiency . However , the increase in work did not immediately change dock workers ' plight , because more new casual workers were coming in droves to take get work . Parnaby has noted that the beginning on twentieth century so Canada become increasingly important in the international trade system , which translated to rapid rise in the amount of exports , especially to Europe and the United State

The increase in exports had , on the other hand , an impact on imports into the country , especially considering that Canadian companies and citizens themselves could afford to commodities from other parts of the world . The responsibility to load and offload cargo at the port solely lay on the dockworkers , who continued...