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National Dock Labour Board: Surveys and Reports of Dock Amenities

Catalogue reference: BK 16

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Two major surveys into amenities for dock workers at ports coming under the National Dock Labour Scheme, in the form of files and booklets.The submissions on Grimsby and Immingham, Lincs; London; the South Coast; and Cumberland...

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BK 16

Title
National Dock Labour Board: Surveys and Reports of Dock Amenities
Date

1948-1970

Description

Two major surveys into amenities for dock workers at ports coming under the National Dock Labour Scheme, in the form of files and booklets.

The submissions on Grimsby and Immingham, Lincs; London; the South Coast; and Cumberland (Barrow-in-Furness) have been selected as representative of the sixteen port areas which came under the National Dock Labour Scheme. The report on Barrow (BK 16/26) was subsequently presented in a revised form in 1970. Minutes of review meetings of the 1966 Survey will be found in BK 16/27

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The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
National Dock Labour Board, 1947-1989
Physical description

27 volume(s)

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Open

Subjects
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Labour
Administrative / biographical background

The first survey into amenities for dock workers was carried out from 1948 to 1949 on behalf of the National Dock Labour Board (NDLB), to give the NDLB a general view of the nature and amount of amenities available to dock workers.

The second (and more detailed) survey was carried out in 1966 following the report of the Committee of Inquiry into certain matters concerning the Port Transport Industry 1965 (Devlin Committee), and it was presented to the then Minister of Labour, the Rt Hon Ray Gunter MP.

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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2889/

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