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 Other Maritime Professions. The Study Of Maritime Labour And Occupations Is Still Under-represented In The Social Sciences And Humanities. With The Present Volume, We Attempt To Fill This Gap By Representing Recent Research On Maritime Professions From A Sociological Perspective Drawing On A Wide Variety Of Disciplinary Approaches And Subject Matters-- Introduction: Maritime Professions As A Field Of Social Research / Marie C. Grasmeier Agnieszka Kołodziej-durnaś Frank Sowa -- Part 1 Macro-sociological And Organizational Approaches: Chapter 1 Seafarers And Dockworkers: Implications For Industrial Sociology / Shaun Ruggunan -- Chapter 2 'making A Ship': Maritime Labour Regime(s) And Alienation In Norwegian Offshore Production / Camilla Mevik -- Chapter 3 Boundary-work, Occupational Identities And Class-experiences Of Global Seafarers / Marie C. Grasmeier Linda Beck -- Part 2 Gender Issues: Chapter 4 The Role Of Discursive Contexts In Constructing The Identity Of Women At Sea: Towards Informal Dimensions Of Maritime Adult Education / Astrid Męczkowska-christiansen Iwona Królikowska -- Chapter 5 Strategies And Struggle Of Women Fishers For The Rescue And Conservation Of A Coastal Lagoon System: Mujeres Pescadoras Del Manglar / Nuria Jimenez Garcia -- Chapter 6 The Fishing Profession In Quebec (canada): Structure, Origins And Development Of A Typically Male Sector/ Marco Alberio -- Part 3 Micro-sociological Approaches: Chapter 7 Team Play: Seafarers' Strategies For Coping With Job Demands Of Short Sea Cargo Shipping Lines/ Birgit Pauksztat -- Chapter 8 The Role Of Personality Traits, Work Motivation And Job Satisfaction In The Explanation Of Seafarers' Well-being / Ana Slišković -- Chapter 9 A Study On The Sense Of Relative Deprivation Of Elderly Fishers From The Perspective Of Ocean Sociology: The Example Of Island S And G In Zhoushan City, China / Wen Zhang Ya Wen -- Chapter 10 Families Of Seamen In The Period Of Political Changes And Today – Homelessness Issues / Roland Dobrzeniecki-Łukasiewicz. Edited By Agnieszka Kołodziej-durnaś, Frank Sowa And Marie C. Grasmeier. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.