{"product_id":"maritime-professions-issues-and-perspectives-9789004518858","title":"Maritime Professions: Issues and Perspectives","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures    List of Tables    Introduction: Maritime Professions as a Field of Social Research   Marie C. Grasmeier, Agnieszka Kolodziej-Durnas and Frank Sowa   Part 1: Macro-Sociological and Organizational Approaches    1 Seafarers and Dockworkers: Implications for Industrial Sociology   Shaun Ruggunan 2 “Making a Ship”: Maritime Labour Regime(s) and Alienation in Norwegian Offshore Production   Camilla Mevik 3 Boundary-work, Occupational Identities and Class-experiences of Global Seafarers   Marie C. Grasmeier and Linda Beck   Part 2: Gender Issues    4 The Role of Discursive Contexts in Constructing the Identity of Women at Sea: Towards Informal Dimensions of Maritime Adult Education   Iwona Królikowska and Astrid Meczkowska-Christiansen 5 Strategies and Struggle of Women Fishers for the Rescue and Conservation of a Coastal Lagoon System: “Mujeres Pescadoras del Manglar”   Nuria Jimenez Garcia 6 The Fishing Profession in Quebec: Structure, Origins and Development of a “Typically Male” Sector   Marco Alberio   Part 3: Micro-Sociological Approaches    7 “Team Play”: Seafarers’ Strategies for Coping with Job Demands of Short Sea Cargo Shipping Lines   Birgit Pauksztat 8 The Role of Personality Traits, Work Motivation and Job Satisfaction in the Explanation of Seafarers’ Well-being   Ana Sliškovic 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 and Ya Wen 10 Families of Seamen in the Period of Political Changes and Today – Homelessness Issues   Roland Dobrzeniecki-Lukasiewicz   Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210846953815,"sku":"9789004518858","price":120.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/maritime-professions-issues-and-perspectives-9789004518858","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}