Editors:
Dealing with contemporary issues relating to the life and work of seafarers and to the modern shipping industry
Written by leaders in their field
Provides an account that is global in reach and yet detailed and empirically rich
Part of the book series: WMU Studies in Maritime Affairs (WMUSTUD, volume 9)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Going to Sea
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Front Matter
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Being at Sea
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Front Matter
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Support for Seafarers and Their Families
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Front Matter
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About this book
Keywords
- Seafarers
- Shipping
- Globalisation
- Global regulation
- Gender
- Multinational crews
- Maritime
- Cargo ships
- Trade unions
- Health and safety at sea
- Open Access
Editors and Affiliations
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School of Accounting, Information Systems and Supply Chains, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Victor Oyaro Gekara
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Seafarers International Research Centre School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK
Helen Sampson
About the editors
Dr Gekara is Associate Professor in the College of Business and Law at RMIT University. His research expertise is in the area of skills development and workforce planning in the context of industrial transformations and the future of work. In this respect, he has undertaken research and published journal papers and book chapters on seafarer training and the changing global dynamics of skills development and labour supply in the shipping sector. He is the co-founder and leader of the Skills, Training and Industry Research Group (STIRN) at RMIT, which develops and disseminates important research in the general area of skills, work and employment.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The World of the Seafarer
Book Subtitle: Qualitative Accounts of Working in the Global Shipping Industry
Editors: Victor Oyaro Gekara, Helen Sampson
Series Title: WMU Studies in Maritime Affairs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49825-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
License: CC BY
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49824-5Published: 04 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49827-6Published: 20 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-49825-2Published: 03 December 2020
Series ISSN: 2196-8772
Series E-ISSN: 2196-8780
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 198
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space, Maritime Economics, Gender Studies