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Maritime Labour Regimes in the Neoliberal Era

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  • Liam Campling

    (Queen Mary University of London and Birkbeck, University of London)

  • Alejandro Colás

    (Queen Mary University of London and Birkbeck, University of London)

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In the structured space of the boat as a place of work and life, maritime labour regimes can be shaped by individual workers as well as the personalities and practices of captains; the technical specifications of the workspace such as a ship’s design; and the broader institutions that simultaneously connect multiple places of work such as (non-)regulation by flag states. An ocean-going ship is not simply a vessel of exchange; it is also a site of work and production. Workers shape labour regimes through past class antagonisms and their compromises which may become codified in national and international law and forms of private ordering; in local historical cultures of labour organizing of greater or weaker militancy; and in contemporaneous struggles, whether in the form of direct resistance, indirect resilience or reworking. This article examines maritime labour regimes in the neoliberal era and seeks to explore a number of questions, including what is specific to the calculus of exploitation, risk and labour-time at sea? How do the geophysical characteristics of the sea shape labour regimes on ocean-going vessels? Have the working lives of those toiling at sea changed since the inception of mercantile capitalism?

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  • Liam Campling & Alejandro Colás, 2023. "Maritime Labour Regimes in the Neoliberal Era," Development, Palgrave Macmillan;Society for International Deveopment, vol. 66(1), pages 65-75, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:develp:v:66:y:2023:i:1:d:10.1057_s41301-023-00369-0
    DOI: 10.1057/s41301-023-00369-0
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