Maritime Professions: Issues and Perspectives

Tables and Figures
	Tables
	Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Maritime Professions as a Field of Social Research
	1 Introduction to this Volume
	2 On the Individual Articles
	References
Part 1: Macro-Sociological and Organizational Approaches
1 Seafarers and Dockworkers: Implications for Industrial Sociology
	1 Introduction
	2 Industrial Sociology
	3 The Power of Maritime Labour to Transform Society: The Case of South Africa
	4 The 1973 Dockworker-led Durban Strikes and the Struggle Against Apartheid
	5 Seafarers, Trade Unions and Globalisation
	6 Understanding How Capital Deploys Its Accumulation Strategies Globally
	7 Flag of Convenience Shipping as a Flexible Accumulation Strategy
	8 Seafaring Labour Markets
	9 The International Transport Workers Federation (ITF)
	10 Future Directions and Conclusion
	References
2 ‘Making a Ship’: Maritime Labour Regime(s) and Alienation in Norwegian Offshore Production
	1 Introduction
	2 Seawork as Fieldwork
	3 Rationale
	4 The Charterer
	5 Big Fish / Small Fish
	6 The Shore-based Company
	7 Alienation and the Labour Process
	8 Evaluating Labour
	9 The Strategic Element of Pauses
	10 Conclusion
3 Boundary-work, Occupational Identities and Class-experiences of Global Seafarers
	1 Introduction
	2 Theoretical Framework
		2.1 Symbolic Boundaries
		2.2 Extending Boundary-Work Theory by Marxian Class Analysis
	3 Methods
	4 The Political Economy of Maritime Labour
	5 External Boundary-work: Seafarers and Landlubbers
	6 Race and Gender: Background Identities
		6.1 ‘Race’
		6.2 Gender
	7 Vertical Differentiation
	8 Conclusion
Part 2: Gender Issues
4 The Role of Discursive Contexts in Constructing the Identity of Women at Sea
	1 Shedding Light on the Issue: Female Maritime Identities
	2 Professional Identity Construction Among Female Seafarers as the Scope of the Current Analyses
	3 Critical Discourse Analysis in the Current Investigation
	4 Data Analysis
	5 Results of the Study: Discursive Contexts of Constructing the Identity of Female Seafarers
	6 The Patriarchal Discourse of Exclusion
		6.1 Positions from Which PDE is Expressed
		6.2 Semiotic Representation of the Domain of Seafaring in PDE
		6.3 Representations of Female Seafarers Within PDE
		6.4 Representations of Female Seafaring Careers Within PDE
		6.5 Patterns of Conduct and Strategies for Action in Relation to Professional Identity Construction Within PDE
	7 The Discourse of Maritime Career Instrumentalisation (DMCI)
		7.1 Semiotic Representation of the Domain of Seafaring in DMCI
		7.2 The Positioning of Female Subjects Within DMCI
		7.3 Representations of Female Seafarers Within DMCI
		7.4 Representations of Female Seafaring Careers Within DMCI
		7.5 Patterns of Conduct and Strategies for Action in Their Relation to Professional Identity Construction Within DMCI
	8 The Discourse of Openness of the Labour Market (DOLM)
		8.1 Semiotic Representation of the Domain of Seafaring in DOLM
		8.2 Representations of Female Seafarers Within DOLM
		8.3 Patterns of Conduct and Strategies for Action in Relation to Professional Identity Construction Within DOLM
	9 Discussion and Concluding Remarks
5 Strategies and Struggle of Women Fishers for the Rescue and Conservation
	1 Introduction
	2 Analytical Perspective/Theoretical Framework
	3 Crisis and Transformations in Fishing Activity. Artisanal Fishing as an Alternative
	4 Access to Environmental and Productive Resources from a Gender Perspective
	5 Visibility and Importance of Women’s Work in Fishing Activities and in the Conservation of Natural Resources
	6 Zapotalito: Between the Lagoon, the Mangrove Swamp, and the Sea
	7 Cooperative “Mujeres Pescadoras del Manglar”
	8 Conclusions
6 The Fishing Profession in Quebec (Canada)
	1 Introduction
	2 A Relatively Traditional Sector Subjected to Transformations and in Need of Adaptation
	3 A Brief Overview of Quebec and Gaspésie Fishers
	4 Women and Fishing: A Review of Scientific Literature
	5 Methodology
	6 “A Country for (old) Men”? Representations of the Required Skills
		6.1 Ambition, Growth and Overcoming Challenges
		6.2 Courage
		6.3 Physical Strength
		6.4 A Feeling of Freedom (and Its Limits)
	7 Is Access to the Profession More Difficult for Women?
	8 Conclusion
Part 3: Micro-Sociological Approaches
7 “Team Play”: Seafarers’ Strategies for Coping with Job Demands of Short Sea Cargo Shipping Lines
	1 Introduction
	2 Job Demands, Resources and Coping Strategies: An Overview
		2.1 Job Demands
		2.2 Resources
		2.3 Coping Strategies
	3 Methods
	4 Coping Strategies in Short Sea Cargo Shipping
		4.1 Strategies for Dealing with Job Demands
		4.2 Strategies for Managing Emotions and Motivation
		4.3 Strategies for Protecting Resources
		4.4 Changing Constraints
	5 Discussion
		5.1 Collective Coping Strategies in Seafaring
		5.2 Limitations of Coping Strategies
		5.3 Practical Implications
	6 Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
8 The Role of Personality Traits, Work Motivation
	1 Introduction
	2 Method
		2.1 Sample
		2.2 Measures
		2.3 Procedure
	3 Results
	4 Discussion
9 A Study on the Sense
	1 Introduction
	2 Insufficient Social and Psychological Support
	3 “Three Types of Comparison” That Strengthen Relative Deprivation
		3.1 Comparing with Their Own Past
		3.2 Comparing with the Younger Generation of Fishers
		3.3 Comparing with Other Occupational Groups
	4 Marine Social Change and the Relative Deprivation of Old Fishers
10 Families of Seamen in the Period of Political Changes and Today – Homelessness Issues
	1 Introduction
	2 Family in a Port Town
	3 Research Methodology
	4 Families of Seafarers and Fishers in the Transition Period
	5 Summary
Index