Work and Working Conditions 1 — The Division of Labour, Contracts, Hours and Wages

Erol Kahveci and Theo Nichols
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Erol Kahveci: Cardiff University
Theo Nichols: Cardiff University

Chapter 5 in The Other Car Workers, 2006, pp 99-125 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter begins with a description of the shipboard division of labour that will be readily recognised by seafarers, more or less irrespective of which country they come from or on which types of vessels they have sailed. Indeed, as we suggest below, for many of them it represents a ‘normal’, taken-for-granted order of things. Judged against land-based occupations, however, it looks very different and today there are several respects in which it probably looks more different, and less ‘normal’, than it did a quarter of a century ago. As we shall see, contracts, hours and wages are also subject to particular determinations and meanings which, although they may be taken for granted by seafarers, also differ from those commonly found in land-based occupations.

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Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230209381_5

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