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Human Resources on the Waterfront: Managing History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

A. Whiteley ,
M. McCabe  and
L. Savery
A. Whiteley
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Business, Curtin University of Technology, 30th Floor, QV1 Building, 250 St Georges Terrace, Perth WA 6000, Tel: (08) 9266 7714, Fax: (08) 92663368, Email: A.Whiteley@gsb.curtin.edu.au
M. McCabe
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Business, Curtin University of Technology, 30th Floor, QV1 Building, 250 St Georges Terrace, Perth WA 6000, Tel: (08) 9266 4184, Fax: (08) 92663368, Email: m.mccabe@gsb.curtin.edu.au
L. Savery
Affiliation:
Curtin Business School, Curtin University of Technology, PO Box U 1987, Perth WA 6845, Tel: (08) 9266 7741, Fax: (08) 9266 7897, Email: saveryl@cbs.curtin.edu.au
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Abstract

The present paper examines the introduction of the Conaust (Fremantle) 1991 Enterprise Based Agreement (EBA). It is more about impressions than about ‘facts’, presenting an interpretive view of the likelihood that the environment at Conaust was conducive to the deep change required by the EBA. The paper describes the nature of waterfront workers' (wharfie) work, the employee relations context within which the waterfront culture developed, the history of Conaust in Fremantle and the Conaust EBA. A central focus of the paper is the contradistinction between behaviours that were a part of the strong waterfront history and those that were accepted as part of the future.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Management & Organization , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , January 1998 , pp. 37 - 50
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press and Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management 1998

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