International audienceThis chapter emphasises the impact of globalisation on Swedish-flagged merchant ships. To hire low cost crews is synonymous with ships that sail under flags-of-convenience. This phenomenon has also had an impact on the national fleet in many countries. In Sweden, the solution has been to approve a system of temporary employed staff to work on board Swedish-flagged ships. The purpose of this chapter is to show how the global labour market impacts the daily work on board these ships. This chapter is based on ethnographic fieldwork that was conducted on board two Swedish-flagged merchant ships in motion. The ships had mixed ethnic crews from Sweden, the Philippines and Poland. The results show that the ships were stratifi...
The Swedish merchant fleet has declined sharply since the 1970s, largely because of the lack of comp...
The international seafaring workforce is responsible for moving approximately 80% of all global trad...
The case of Philippine seafarers illustrates the tensions between globalization, national labor regu...
The globalised labour market for seafarers has led to multinationally crewed vessels. According to a...
Globalisation has transformed the seafarer labour market. As shipping companies have flagged vessels...
International audienceThe book considers the changes in work on board merchant ships. This is the fi...
The globalization is the period of economic transformation according to the business competition. A ...
Seafarers working in the 21st century global shipping industry are multi-national crew of migrant co...
This volume offers a systematic account of the effects of globalization on the shipping industry and...
This paper looks at how "Globalisation" – narrowly defined as the causes and effects of increased i...
International audienceThe key role of seafarers in shipping activities is well known. Increasing flo...
Maritime labour markets were initially formed on a national level to provide the nation-states manpo...
Today’s globalisation has opened up borders between countries as can especially be seen with the ope...
Multinational cross-cultural manning of merchant ships is not a new element in shipping. Today, howe...
This bachelor of economics paper discuss that the increasing globalization has put the small compani...
The Swedish merchant fleet has declined sharply since the 1970s, largely because of the lack of comp...
The international seafaring workforce is responsible for moving approximately 80% of all global trad...
The case of Philippine seafarers illustrates the tensions between globalization, national labor regu...
The globalised labour market for seafarers has led to multinationally crewed vessels. According to a...
Globalisation has transformed the seafarer labour market. As shipping companies have flagged vessels...
International audienceThe book considers the changes in work on board merchant ships. This is the fi...
The globalization is the period of economic transformation according to the business competition. A ...
Seafarers working in the 21st century global shipping industry are multi-national crew of migrant co...
This volume offers a systematic account of the effects of globalization on the shipping industry and...
This paper looks at how "Globalisation" – narrowly defined as the causes and effects of increased i...
International audienceThe key role of seafarers in shipping activities is well known. Increasing flo...
Maritime labour markets were initially formed on a national level to provide the nation-states manpo...
Today’s globalisation has opened up borders between countries as can especially be seen with the ope...
Multinational cross-cultural manning of merchant ships is not a new element in shipping. Today, howe...
This bachelor of economics paper discuss that the increasing globalization has put the small compani...
The Swedish merchant fleet has declined sharply since the 1970s, largely because of the lack of comp...
The international seafaring workforce is responsible for moving approximately 80% of all global trad...
The case of Philippine seafarers illustrates the tensions between globalization, national labor regu...