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The Labour Factor: The Docks of Trieste and Koper through the Global Crisis
as much as possible with an increasingly pressing request for greater flex-
ibility, not infrequently also fuelled by the search for greater profits or
economies of scale. This organization of port work takes place within a
wide variety of legal and social conditions and the work systems vary con-
siderably depending on how the proposed conceptual scheme elements
are combined together (Bologna 2006; ILO 1996).
Trieste and Koper: Work Organization
In Trieste, as in the rest of Italy, port work was regulated by Law 84/94,
with its subsequent revisions and additions, until the enactment of
Legislative Decree 169/2016 and the subsequent outline of Legislative
Decree, the CD ‘Correttivo Porti’.
The Italian Law 84/94 was a regulatory intervention which, in addi-
tion to restructuring port discipline in general (with the institution of
the Port Authorities to replace the previous economic institutions and or-
ganizations, retaining only general coordination, control, and promotion
functions), incorporated the important dispositions taken by the Court
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as much as possible with an increasingly pressing request for greater flex-
ibility, not infrequently also fuelled by the search for greater profits or
economies of scale. This organization of port work takes place within a
wide variety of legal and social conditions and the work systems vary con-
siderably depending on how the proposed conceptual scheme elements
are combined together (Bologna 2006; ILO 1996).
Trieste and Koper: Work Organization
In Trieste, as in the rest of Italy, port work was regulated by Law 84/94,
with its subsequent revisions and additions, until the enactment of
Legislative Decree 169/2016 and the subsequent outline of Legislative
Decree, the CD ‘Correttivo Porti’.
The Italian Law 84/94 was a regulatory intervention which, in addi-
tion to restructuring port discipline in general (with the institution of
the Port Authorities to replace the previous economic institutions and or-
ganizations, retaining only general coordination, control, and promotion
functions), incorporated the important dispositions taken by the Court
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