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9789221127130

The Global Seafarer

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  • ISBN13:

    9789221127130

  • ISBN10:

    9221127133

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-05-30
  • Publisher: Intl Labour Organisation
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Summary

This volume offers a systematic account of the effects of globalization on the shipping industry and seafarers' lives. It looks at the political economy of world shipping; flag states and regulation; the seafarer labour market; shipboard life; seafarer families and sub-standard ships and seafarer abandonment. Innovations such as automated engine rooms and the global maritime distress and safety system, the internationalization of ship registrations, multinational crewing and reductions in crewing levels, and the rise in ship management companies are acknowledged as having a profound effect on seafarers' living and working conditions. This book examines these and future issues for regulation and enforcement.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations ix
Acknowledgements xiii
About the authors xv
Introduction 1(4)
1 The political economy of world shipping 5(22)
Introduction
5(1)
Shipping and world trade
6(4)
Ownership, organization and finance
10(7)
Growth sectors: Containers and cruise
17(2)
The rise of the ship-management company
19(3)
Technological developments
22(3)
Politics and shipping
25(2)
2 Flag States and regulation 27(30)
Introduction
27(1)
FOCs and second registers
28(10)
Regulatory regimes and practice
38(6)
Flag State good practice
44(4)
Regulatory regimes and labour issues
48(9)
3 The labour market for seafarers 57(38)
Introduction
57(1)
The global labour market
57(24)
Training and certification
81(7)
Trade unions and collective bargaining
88(7)
4 Shipboard life and work - I 95(26)
Shipboard society
95(8)
Turnaround and voyage cycles
103(6)
Wages and conditions of employment
109(12)
5 Shipboard life and work - II 121(24)
Food, diet and accommodation
121(10)
Occupational safety
131(3)
Occupational health
134(11)
6 Seafarers' families 145(14)
Introduction
145(1)
Seafarers and their families
146(2)
Health and safety
148(2)
Social isolation aboard and ashore
150(1)
Ship-shore communication
151(2)
Company policies and their impact on family life
153(6)
7 Sub-standard ships and abandoned seafarers 159(30)
Introduction
159(1)
Defining and identifying the sub-standard ship
160(5)
Abandoned seafarers
165(7)
Case notes from Sri Lanka, Tunisia and the United Kingdom
172(3)
Case study: The OBO Basak
175(7)
Towards global protection
182(7)
Conclusion 189

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