Dockworkers’ hourly hiring made their time subordinate to shipping variables

Evidence

[Their labor] suffers the full brunt of a depression, the slack of seasons, and in addition must deal with fluctuations daily and hourly peculiar to itself. Discharging and loading vessels is subject to the variables of uncertain arrival of ships, diverse cargoes, good, bad, and ordinary equipment, regrouping of men and different employers; and is at the mercy of the elements of time, tide, and weather…Hiring is by the hour, not the day, and never steadily. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 308

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Efficiency displaces friction onto hidden labor and environmental costs throughout supply chains — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…, 777
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Efficiency displaces friction onto hidden labor and environmental costs throughout supply chains — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…, 777