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Lives in Peril

Profit or Safety in the Global Maritime Industry?

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. David Walters

    1. Cardiff Work Environment Research Centre, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK

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  2. Nick Bailey

    1. School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: The Health, Safety and Well-Being of Seafarers – Understanding the Challenges

    1. Introduction: The Health, Safety and Well-Being of Seafarers – Understanding the Challenges

      • David Walters, Nick Bailey
      Pages 1-14

  3. The Hazards of Work at Sea

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-16
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    2. A Picture of Health? Evidence of Mortality and Morbidity among Merchant Seafarers

      • David Walters, Nick Bailey
      Pages 17-42

    3. The Hazards of Work in Merchant Shipping

      • David Walters, Nick Bailey
      Pages 43-68

  4. The Structure and Operation of the Maritime Industry and Its Approach to Regulating the Work Environment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-70
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    2. The Structure and Organisation of the Maritime Industry

      • David Walters, Nick Bailey
      Pages 71-97

    3. Regulatory Features of the Maritime Industry

      • David Walters, Nick Bailey
      Pages 98-128

    4. Managing Health and Safety at Sea (1)

      • David Walters, Nick Bailey
      Pages 129-148

  5. Understanding Vulnerability in a Globalised Industry

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-150
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    2. Managing Health and Safety at Sea (2): Limits to the Conventional Approach

      • David Walters, Nick Bailey
      Pages 151-166

    3. The Role of Organised Labour

      • David Walters, Nick Bailey
      Pages 167-186

    4. Governance and Regulation: Drivers and Leverage in Support of Improved Management of Health and Safety at Sea

      • David Walters, Nick Bailey
      Pages 187-215

    5. Conclusions

      • David Walters, Nick Bailey
      Pages 216-234

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 235-262
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About this book

Lives in Peril demonstrates how and why seafarers are a vulnerable group of workers. It argues they are made so by the organisation and structure of their employment; the prioritisation of profit over safety by the actors that engage and control their labour; the limits of enforcement of the regulatory framework that is in place to protect them; and by their weakness as collective actors in relation to capital. The consequences of this vulnerability are seen in data on their occupationally-related morbidity and mortality - evidence that probably only represents a partial picture of the actual extent of the physical, mental and emotional harm resulting from work at sea. This volume's central argument is that this situation is likely to remain broadly unchanged as long as global maritime governance and regulation remains in thrall to the neo-liberal economic and political arguments that drive globalisation, and fails to enforce regulatory standards more robustly.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Cardiff Work Environment Research Centre, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK

    David Walters

  • School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK

    Nick Bailey

About the authors

David Walters is Professor of Work Environment at Cardiff University, UK. He has written extensively on various aspects of the work environment, including employee representation and consultation on health and safety, the politics of health and safety at work, governance and regulation of health and safety, and chemical risks and health and safety in small firms.
 
Nick Bailey is a lecturer in Social Sciences at Cardiff University, UK. As a former ship's officer and with ten years research experience in the Seafarers International Research Centre (SIRC), his work has focused on issues of health, safety and risk in this highly globalised industry.

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