Rivera Medina, Ana María2026-03-162026-03-162021-05-25MEDINA, A. M. R. (2021). Basque Stevedoring and Cargo Handling Infrastructures (14th–16th Centuries). En Ports in the Medieval European Atlantic (pp. 31-56). Boydell & Brewer. https://doi.org/10.2307/J.CTV1GRBB8F.109781783276158https://doi.org/10.2307/J.CTV1GRBB8F.10https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/32124This chapter will analyse the legal support granted to the task of stevedoring, the organisation of port spaces (loading and unloading areas), and the workforce (men and women), by establishing a hierarchy in these orders. These activities were firmly controlled by confraternities, universities and consulates, both in ports of origin and in ports of destination. Accordingly, and given the importance of loading and unloading tasks, I shall also present a comparative analysis with other primary Atlantic spaces, with a particular focus on technical and logistical transferences, the evolution and strategies of ‘mutualisation’ processes in port labour and the settlement of conflicts generated by a trade that required precision and legal protection, practised as it was on the maritime frontier, a sphere of intersections or a living membrane leading to both positive and negative manifestations. And this, with an emphasis on the correlations between the different realities involved.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess5504.03 Historia medievalcapítulo de libro9781800101678