Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Workers around the World : Case Studies 1950-2010 / edited by Raquel Varela, Hugh Murphy, and Marcel van der Linden.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Work around the globe : historical comparisons ; 2 | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019Copyright date: ©[2017]Description: 1 online resource (742 pages)Content type:
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Cover; Contents; 1. Introduction / Marcel van der Linden, Hugh Murphy, and Raquel Varela; North-western Europe; 2. Labour in the British shipbuilding and ship repairing industries in the twentieth century / Hugh Murphy; 3. Bremer Vulkan: A case study of the West German shipbuilding industry and its narratives in the second half of the twentieth century / Johanna Wolf; 4. From boom to bust: Kockums, Malmö (Sweden), 1950-1986 / Tobias Karlsson.
12. Work in the Portuguese shipyards of Lisnave: From the right to work to precariousness of employment / Raquel Varela and Ana Rajado13. The Gdańsk Shipyard: Production regime and workers' conflicts in the 1970s and 1980s in the People's Republic of Poland / Sarah Graber Majchrzak; 14. The shipbuilding industry in Galați (Romania) under communism, 1948-1989 / Constantin Ardeleanu; The Americas and Australia; 15. Charting a new course: US shipbuilding labour, 1950-2014 / Robin Dearmon Muhammad; 16. The Argentinean shipbuilding industry: Workers' struggles in a state shipyard / Cintia Russo.
17. Production and labour of a state-owned enterprise: A case study of an Argentinean shipyard, Astillero Río Santiago / Juliana Frassa18. Labour in the Brazilian shipbuilding industry: A contribution to an analysis of the recovery period / Claudiana Guedes de Jesus; 19. Brazilian shipbuilding and workers between tradition and innovation: Shipyards Caneco/Rio Nave and Mauá -- Rio de Janeiro, 1950-2014 / Elina G. da Fonte Pessanha and Luisa Barbosa Pereira; 20. Cockatoo Island, Australia: Industry, labour, and protest culture / Lisa Milner; Asia.
5. The Norwegian shipbuilding industry after 1945: Production systems, rationalisation, and labour relations, with special reference to Bergens Mekaniske Verksteder and Aker Stord / Hans-Jakob Ågotnes and Jan Heiret6. From war reparations to luxury cruise liners: Production changes and labour relations at the Turku shipyard (Finland) between 1950 and 2010 / Kari Teräs; 7. The Dutch shipbuilding industry, 1950-2012 / Sjaak van der Velden; Southern and Eastern Europe.
8. Always on the verge of sinking: Labour and production in the Sestri Ponente shipyard, Genoa (Italy), 1950-2014 / Giulia Strippoli, Davide Tabor, and Luciano Villani9. Work, workers, and labour conflicts in the shipyard Bazán/Navantia-Ferrol, Galicia (Spain), 1950-2014 / Jose Gómez Alen; 10. Against market rules: A Spanish shipyard nobody wanted (except workers) / Ruben Vega García; 11. Labour relations in a Portuguese shipyard: The case of Setenave / Jorge Fontes.
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.
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Cover; Contents; 1. Introduction / Marcel van der Linden, Hugh Murphy, and Raquel Varela; North-western Europe; 2. Labour in the British shipbuilding and ship repairing industries in the twentieth century / Hugh Murphy; 3. Bremer Vulkan: A case study of the West German shipbuilding industry and its narratives in the second half of the twentieth century / Johanna Wolf; 4. From boom to bust: Kockums, Malmö (Sweden), 1950-1986 / Tobias Karlsson.

12. Work in the Portuguese shipyards of Lisnave: From the right to work to precariousness of employment / Raquel Varela and Ana Rajado13. The Gdańsk Shipyard: Production regime and workers' conflicts in the 1970s and 1980s in the People's Republic of Poland / Sarah Graber Majchrzak; 14. The shipbuilding industry in Galați (Romania) under communism, 1948-1989 / Constantin Ardeleanu; The Americas and Australia; 15. Charting a new course: US shipbuilding labour, 1950-2014 / Robin Dearmon Muhammad; 16. The Argentinean shipbuilding industry: Workers' struggles in a state shipyard / Cintia Russo.

17. Production and labour of a state-owned enterprise: A case study of an Argentinean shipyard, Astillero Río Santiago / Juliana Frassa18. Labour in the Brazilian shipbuilding industry: A contribution to an analysis of the recovery period / Claudiana Guedes de Jesus; 19. Brazilian shipbuilding and workers between tradition and innovation: Shipyards Caneco/Rio Nave and Mauá -- Rio de Janeiro, 1950-2014 / Elina G. da Fonte Pessanha and Luisa Barbosa Pereira; 20. Cockatoo Island, Australia: Industry, labour, and protest culture / Lisa Milner; Asia.

5. The Norwegian shipbuilding industry after 1945: Production systems, rationalisation, and labour relations, with special reference to Bergens Mekaniske Verksteder and Aker Stord / Hans-Jakob Ågotnes and Jan Heiret6. From war reparations to luxury cruise liners: Production changes and labour relations at the Turku shipyard (Finland) between 1950 and 2010 / Kari Teräs; 7. The Dutch shipbuilding industry, 1950-2012 / Sjaak van der Velden; Southern and Eastern Europe.

8. Always on the verge of sinking: Labour and production in the Sestri Ponente shipyard, Genoa (Italy), 1950-2014 / Giulia Strippoli, Davide Tabor, and Luciano Villani9. Work, workers, and labour conflicts in the shipyard Bazán/Navantia-Ferrol, Galicia (Spain), 1950-2014 / Jose Gómez Alen; 10. Against market rules: A Spanish shipyard nobody wanted (except workers) / Ruben Vega García; 11. Labour relations in a Portuguese shipyard: The case of Setenave / Jorge Fontes.

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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.

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