Shipbuilding and ship repair workers around the world : case studies 1950-2010 / edited by Raquel Varela, Hugh Murphy, and Marcel van der Linden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Varela, Raquel., Editor.

Contributor:

Linden, Marcel van der, 1952- editor.

Murphy, Hugh, 1956- editor.

Varela, Raquel, editor.

Series:

Work around the globe ; 2.

Work around the globe: historical comparisons and connections ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shipbuilding industry--Employees--History--20th century.

Shipbuilding industry.

Shipbuilding industry--Employees--History--21st century.

Shipbuilding industry--History--20th century.

Shipbuilding industry--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (749 pages) : illustrations, tables; digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

Maritime trade is the backbone of the world's economy. Around ninety percent of all goods are transported by ship, and since World War II, shipbuilding has undergone major changes in response to new commercial pressures and opportunities. Early British dominance, for example, was later undermined in the 1950s by competition from the Japanese, who have since been overtaken by South Korea and, most recently, China. The case studies in this volume trace these and other important developments in the shipbuilding and ship repair industries, as well as workers' responses to these historic transformations.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1. Introduction / van der Linden, Marcel / Murphy, Hugh / Varela, Raquel

North-western Europe

2. Labour in the British shipbuilding and ship repairing industries in the twentieth century

3. Bremer Vulkan. A case study of the West German shipbuilding industry and its narratives in the second half of the twentieth century / Wolf, Johanna

4. From boom to bust. Kockums, Malmö (Sweden), 1950-1986 / Karlsson, Tobias

5. The Norwegian shipbuilding industry after 1945. Production systems, rationalisation, and labour relations, with special reference to Bergens Mekaniske Verksteder and Aker Stord / Ågotnes, Hans-Jakob / Heiret, Jan

6. From war reparations to luxury cruise liners. Production changes and labour relations at the Turku shipyard (Finland) between 1950 and 2010 / Teräs, Kari

7. The Dutch shipbuilding industry, 1950-2012 / van der Velden, Sjaak

Southern and Eastern Europe

8. Always on the verge of sinking. Labour and production in the Sestri Ponente shipyard, Genoa (Italy), 1950-2014 / Strippoli, Giulia / Tabor, Davide / Villani, Luciano

9. Work, workers, and labour conflicts in the shipyard Bazán /Navantia-Ferrol, Galicia (Spain), 1950-2014 / Alén, José Gómez

10. Against market rules. A Spanish shipyard nobody wanted (except workers) / García, Rubén Vega

11. Labour relations in a Portuguese shipyard. The case of Setenave / Fontes, Jorge

12. Work in the Portuguese shipyards of Lisnave. From the right to work to precariousness of employment / Varela, Raquel / Rajado, Ana

13. The Gdańsk Shipyard. Production regime and workers' conflicts in the 1970s and 1980s in the People's Republic of Poland / Majchrzak, Sarah Graber

14. The shipbuilding industry in Galați (Romania) under communism, 1948-1989 / Ardeleanu, Constantin

The Americas and Australia

15. Charting a new course. US shipbuilding labour, 1950-2014 / Muhammad, Robin Dearmon

16. The Argentinean shipbuilding industry. Workers' struggles in a state shipyard / Russo, Cintia

17. Production and labour of a stateowned enterprise. A case study of an Argentinean shipyard, Astillero Río Santiago / Frassa, Juliana

18. Labour in the Brazilian shipbuilding industry. A contribution to an analysis of the recovery period / de Jesus, Claudiana Guedes

19. Brazilian shipbuilding and workers between tradition and innovation. Shipyards Caneco/Rio Nave and Mauá - Rio de Janeiro, 1950-2014 / da Fonte Pessanha, Elina G. / Pereira, Luisa Barbosa

20. Cockatoo Island, Australia. Industry, labour, and protest culture / Milner, Lisa

Asia

21. Evolution and development of the shipbuilding industry in Bharati Shipyard Ltd, Maharashtra (India), from the 1970s to 2010. Employer, employee, and production perspectives / Pasha, S.M. Fahimuddin

22. Shipbuilding and shipbuilders in Thailand / Mocci, Nicola

23. The lower labour market and the development of the post-war Japanese shipbuilding industry / Haraguchi, Takeshi / Sakurada, Kazuya

24. The evolution of labour relations in the South Korean shipbuilding industry. A case study of Hanjin Heavy Industries, 1950-2014 / Shin, Wonchul

25. China, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and Vietnam / Murphy, Hugh

26. Some final observations / Murphy, Hugh / van der Linden, Marcel

Appendix 1: The effects of the oil price shocks on shipbuilding in the 1970s / Murphy, Hugh / Tenold, Stig

Appendix 2: Shipbuilding in 2013: an analysis of shipbuilding statistics / Culkin, Victoria

Glossary of shipping and shipbuilding terms

Collective bibliography

Notes on contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 699-729) and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-70367-4

1-04-078238-8

90-485-3072-5

9781003703679

OCLC:

981912347