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MARC view
Stevedores (Topical Term)
Used for/see from:
- Dock hands
- Dockers
- Dockhands
- Dockworkers
- Longshore workers
- Earlier heading: Longshoremen
- Shore porters
- Waterfront workers
- Waterside workers
- Wharf labourers
- Wharfies
- Wharfys
See also:
- Broader heading: Transport workers
Mitchell, W. Wharf labourers ... 1973.
Griffiths, B. Wharfies : a celebration of 100 years on the Fremantle waterfront 1889-1989.
Seamen & dockers' bulletin. Fremantle, W.A., 1968.
Macq. dict. (All terms are listed, with Wharfy an alternative spelling for Wharfies, the colloquial form of Wharf labourers.)
Am. heritage dict. (dockworker: a dockhand, a longshoreman)