Maritime Professions : : Issues and Perspectives.

Maritime Professions : : Issues and Perspectives.

"On a global scale, more than 40 million people make their living working directly at sea as fishers, seafarers, in aquaculture or seabed-mining, or related occupations such as dockworkers, shipbuilding, logistics, maritime administration, secondary branches of shipping, marine tourism and othe...

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Superior document:International Studies in Maritime Sociology Series ; v.2
:
Kołodziej-Durnaś, Agnieszka.
TeilnehmendeR:
Sowa, Frank.
Grasmeier, Marie.
Place / Publishing House:Boston : : BRILL,, 2023.
©2023.
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:International Studies in Maritime Sociology Series
Physical Description:1 online resource (269 pages)
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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.

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