Autorentext

Helen Sampson is a Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. She has been the Director of the Seafarers International Research Centre for over 20 years. In 2014, she won the BBC/BSA ethnography prize for her book International Seafarers and Transnationalism in the Twenty-First Century.

Klappentext

The book is an ethnography that draws upon 25 years of qualitative research and shipboard field work in the merchant cargo shipping sector. It explores the lives and work of seafarers and how these have changed over time.

Inhalt

Introduction

1. Joining Beluga

2. Sea craft

3. Full steam ahead

4. Crashing and banging in port

5. Stopping and starting: from the Bosporus to the Black Sea

6. Heading for home: shipboard reflections

7. The ebb and flow of time

8. Gender matters: the challenges of being female on board

9. How ships lost their 'rock and roll'!

10. Spartan standards and sacrifice: a life on floating steel

Conclusions, signing off and final thoughts