Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Workers around the World
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Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Workers around the World

Case Studies 1950-2010

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  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Workers around the World

Case Studies 1950-2010

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. 1. Introduction
  3. North-western Europe
  4. 2. Labour in the British shipbuilding and ship repairing industries in the twentieth century
  5. 3. Bremer Vulkan. A case study of the West German shipbuilding industry and its narratives in the second half of the twentieth century
  6. 4. From boom to bust. Kockums, Malmö (Sweden), 1950-1986
  7. 5. The Norwegian shipbuilding industry after 1945. Production systems, rationalisation, and labour relations, with special reference to Bergens Mekaniske Verksteder and Aker Stord
  8. 6. From war reparations to luxury cruise liners. Production changes and labour relations at the Turku shipyard (Finland) between 1950 and 2010
  9. 7. The Dutch shipbuilding industry, 1950-2012
  10. Southern and Eastern Europe
  11. 8. Always on the verge of sinking. Labour and production in the Sestri Ponente shipyard, Genoa (Italy), 1950-2014
  12. 9. Work, workers, and labour conflicts in the shipyard Bazán /Navantia-Ferrol, Galicia (Spain), 1950-2014
  13. 10. Against market rules. A Spanish shipyard nobody wanted (except workers)
  14. 11. Labour relations in a Portuguese shipyard. The case of Setenave
  15. 12. Work in the Portuguese shipyards of Lisnave. From the right to work to precariousness of employment
  16. 13. The Gdańsk Shipyard. Production regime and workers’ conflicts in the 1970s and 1980s in the People’s Republic of Poland
  17. 14. The shipbuilding industry in Galați (Romania) under communism, 1948-1989
  18. The Americas and Australia
  19. 15. Charting a new course. US shipbuilding labour, 1950-2014
  20. 16. The Argentinean shipbuilding industry. Workers’ struggles in a state shipyard
  21. 17. Production and labour of a stateowned enterprise. A case study of an Argentinean shipyard, Astillero Río Santiago
  22. 18. Labour in the Brazilian shipbuilding industry. A contribution to an analysis of the recovery period
  23. 19. Brazilian shipbuilding and workers between tradition and innovation. Shipyards Caneco/Rio Nave and Mauá – Rio de Janeiro, 1950-2014
  24. 20. Cockatoo Island, Australia. Industry, labour, and protest culture
  25. Asia
  26. 21. Evolution and development of the shipbuilding industry in Bharati Shipyard Ltd, Maharashtra (India), from the 1970s to 2010. Employer, employee, and production perspectives
  27. 22. Shipbuilding and shipbuilders in Thailand
  28. 23. The lower labour market and the development of the post-war Japanese shipbuilding industry
  29. 24. The evolution of labour relations in the South Korean shipbuilding industry. A case study of Hanjin Heavy Industries, 1950-2014
  30. 25. China, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and Vietnam
  31. 26. Some final observations
  32. Appendix 1: The effects of the oil price shocks on shipbuilding in the 1970s
  33. Appendix 2: Shipbuilding in 2013: an analysis of shipbuilding statistics
  34. Glossary of shipping and shipbuilding terms
  35. Collective bibliography
  36. Notes on contributors
  37. Index