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
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.
Prof. Helen Sampson has studied the shipping industry and seafarers since 1999. Her research and publications in this area have focussed on: work; skills and training; regulation; corporate social responsibility; gender; transnationalism; structured social space; health and wellbeing; ship-shoreinteraction and the use of mandatory equipment. Helen has also contributed to debates on research methods and has published articles and chapters on: researcher risk; Delphi groups; pilot studies; real life vignettes; and accessing elites. She is interested in the emerging area of Human-Animal Studies (HAS) and has undertaken research on horse welfare in Wales and power relationships between horses and their keepers. In 2014 she won the British Sociological Association/BBC prize for Ethnography for her book International Seafarers and Transnationalism in the Twenty-First Century.
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
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