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What is a docker's life? What do they do? Perhaps you're thinking of a brawny man, sweat pouring from his brow, hauling sacks of grain or boxes of bananas out of an oily cargo-ship across a rain-swept quayside. Well, 50 years ago, that was how it was for the thousands of Southampton's dockworkers; today, there are only a few hundred left and they're most likely to be sitting in a warm cabin, driving a crane or a container-carrier. Listen to Peter Indge and Maxie Hendies - retired dockers - and Derek Burke - who's still doing the job - talking about what life was like for dockworkers as far back as the 1930s - and how it's changed. |
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“There was a character - we called him “The Sheriff”... all he said all day was 'What's the hold up, lads? What's the hold up?'” |
Hear the programmes
Conditions of Work
Piecework and Low wages
Then and Now
Personalities
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