Maritime Professions : Issues and Perspectives.
Sociological research on maritime professions offers new insights in work at sea.
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Language: | English |
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Boston :
BRILL,
2023.
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
Series: | International Studies in Maritime Sociology Series
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Tables and Figures
- Tables
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Maritime Professions as a Field of Social Research
- 1 Introduction to this Volume
- 2 On the Individual Articles
- References
- Part 1: Macro-Sociological and Organizational Approaches
- 1 Seafarers and Dockworkers: Implications for Industrial Sociology
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Industrial Sociology
- 3 The Power of Maritime Labour to Transform Society: The Case of South Africa
- 4 The 1973 Dockworker-led Durban Strikes and the Struggle Against Apartheid
- 5 Seafarers, Trade Unions and Globalisation
- 6 Understanding How Capital Deploys Its Accumulation Strategies Globally
- 7 Flag of Convenience Shipping as a Flexible Accumulation Strategy
- 8 Seafaring Labour Markets
- 9 The International Transport Workers Federation (ITF)
- 10 Future Directions and Conclusion
- References
- 2 'Making a Ship': Maritime Labour Regime(s) and Alienation in Norwegian Offshore Production
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Seawork as Fieldwork
- 3 Rationale
- 4 The Charterer
- 5 Big Fish / Small Fish
- 6 The Shore-based Company
- 7 Alienation and the Labour Process
- 8 Evaluating Labour
- 9 The Strategic Element of Pauses
- 10 Conclusion
- 3 Boundary-work, Occupational Identities and Class-experiences of Global Seafarers
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Theoretical Framework
- 2.1 Symbolic Boundaries
- 2.2 Extending Boundary-Work Theory by Marxian Class Analysis
- 3 Methods
- 4 The Political Economy of Maritime Labour
- 5 External Boundary-work: Seafarers and Landlubbers
- 6 Race and Gender: Background Identities
- 6.1 'Race'
- 6.2 Gender
- 7 Vertical Differentiation
- 8 Conclusion
- Part 2: Gender Issues
- 4 The Role of Discursive Contexts in Constructing the Identity of Women at Sea
- 1 Shedding Light on the Issue: Female Maritime Identities.
- 2 Professional Identity Construction Among Female Seafarers as the Scope of the Current Analyses
- 3 Critical Discourse Analysis in the Current Investigation
- 4 Data Analysis
- 5 Results of the Study: Discursive Contexts of Constructing the Identity of Female Seafarers
- 6 The Patriarchal Discourse of Exclusion
- 6.1 Positions from Which PDE is Expressed
- 6.2 Semiotic Representation of the Domain of Seafaring in PDE
- 6.3 Representations of Female Seafarers Within PDE
- 6.4 Representations of Female Seafaring Careers Within PDE
- 6.5 Patterns of Conduct and Strategies for Action in Relation to Professional Identity Construction Within PDE
- 7 The Discourse of Maritime Career Instrumentalisation (DMCI)
- 7.1 Semiotic Representation of the Domain of Seafaring in DMCI
- 7.2 The Positioning of Female Subjects Within DMCI
- 7.3 Representations of Female Seafarers Within DMCI
- 7.4 Representations of Female Seafaring Careers Within DMCI
- 7.5 Patterns of Conduct and Strategies for Action in Their Relation to Professional Identity Construction Within DMCI
- 8 The Discourse of Openness of the Labour Market (DOLM)
- 8.1 Semiotic Representation of the Domain of Seafaring in DOLM
- 8.2 Representations of Female Seafarers Within DOLM
- 8.3 Patterns of Conduct and Strategies for Action in Relation to Professional Identity Construction Within DOLM
- 9 Discussion and Concluding Remarks
- 5 Strategies and Struggle of Women Fishers for the Rescue and Conservation
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Analytical Perspective/Theoretical Framework
- 3 Crisis and Transformations in Fishing Activity. Artisanal Fishing as an Alternative
- 4 Access to Environmental and Productive Resources from a Gender Perspective
- 5 Visibility and Importance of Women's Work in Fishing Activities and in the Conservation of Natural Resources.
- 6 Zapotalito: Between the Lagoon, the Mangrove Swamp, and the Sea
- 7 Cooperative "Mujeres Pescadoras del Manglar"
- 8 Conclusions
- 6 The Fishing Profession in Quebec (Canada)
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A Relatively Traditional Sector Subjected to Transformations and in Need of Adaptation
- 3 A Brief Overview of Quebec and Gaspésie Fishers
- 4 Women and Fishing: A Review of Scientific Literature
- 5 Methodology
- 6 "A Country for (old) Men"? Representations of the Required Skills
- 6.1 Ambition, Growth and Overcoming Challenges
- 6.2 Courage
- 6.3 Physical Strength
- 6.4 A Feeling of Freedom (and Its Limits)
- 7 Is Access to the Profession More Difficult for Women?
- 8 Conclusion
- Part 3: Micro-Sociological Approaches
- 7 "Team Play": Seafarers' Strategies for Coping with Job Demands of Short Sea Cargo Shipping Lines
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Job Demands, Resources and Coping Strategies: An Overview
- 2.1 Job Demands
- 2.2 Resources
- 2.3 Coping Strategies
- 3 Methods
- 4 Coping Strategies in Short Sea Cargo Shipping
- 4.1 Strategies for Dealing with Job Demands
- 4.2 Strategies for Managing Emotions and Motivation
- 4.3 Strategies for Protecting Resources
- 4.4 Changing Constraints
- 5 Discussion
- 5.1 Collective Coping Strategies in Seafaring
- 5.2 Limitations of Coping Strategies
- 5.3 Practical Implications
- 6 Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- 8 The Role of Personality Traits, Work Motivation
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Method
- 2.1 Sample
- 2.2 Measures
- 2.3 Procedure
- 3 Results
- 4 Discussion
- 9 A Study on the Sense
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Insufficient Social and Psychological Support
- 3 "Three Types of Comparison" That Strengthen Relative Deprivation
- 3.1 Comparing with Their Own Past
- 3.2 Comparing with the Younger Generation of Fishers
- 3.3 Comparing with Other Occupational Groups.
- 4 Marine Social Change and the Relative Deprivation of Old Fishers
- 10 Families of Seamen in the Period of Political Changes and Today - Homelessness Issues
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Family in a Port Town
- 3 Research Methodology
- 4 Families of Seafarers and Fishers in the Transition Period
- 5 Summary
- Index.