An article from the Guardian, about 12 years old, when the policies of Porters working in Billingsgate Market and their licensing was undergoing changes.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/aug/03/billingsgate-fish-market-porters-licences
explains the redundancy that was implied was not because the Market no longer had demand / need for the Porters' labour but instead there was an interest to liberalise the trade through stopping the licensing and allowing the Fish mongers to hire labour from the open market.
explains the redundancy that was implied was not because the Market no longer had demand / need for the Porters' labour but instead there was an interest to liberalise the trade through stopping the licensing and allowing the Fish mongers to hire labour from the open market.
Photography artist Claudia Leisinger has covered the last porters of Billingsgate Market very beautifully in a photo essay last seen here https://vimeo.com/40644907
This trend is repeated over and over again across various sectors of the economy, from Black Cab drivers to NHS workers, where workers with skills are gentrified from their work, place of work and places where they live.
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