Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Workers around the World: Case Studies 1950-2010 [Hardcover]

Maritime trade is the backbone of the world’s economy. Around ninety percent of all goods are transported by ship, and since World War II shipbuilding has undergone major changes in response to new commercial pressures and opportunities. Early British dominance, for example, was later undermined by competition from the Japanese, who have since been overtaken by South Korea and, most recently, China. The case studies in this volume trace these and other important developments in the shipbuilding and ship repair industries, as well as workers’ responses to these historic transformations.

Raquel Varelais a researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa.Hugh Murphyis a visiting reader in maritime history at the Royal Museums Greenwich and professor of economic and social history at the University of Glasgow.Marcel van der Lindenis a senior research fellow at the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam.

1 Introduction
  Marcel van der Linden, Hugh Murphy, and Raquel Varela

Acknowledgements

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2 Labour in the British shipbuilding and ship repairing industries in the twentieth century
  Hugh Murphy

3 Bremer Vulkan: A case study of the West German shipbuilding industry and its narratives in the second half of the twentieth century
  Johanna Wolf

4 From boom to bust: Kockums, Malmö (Sweden), 1950–1986
  Tobias Karlsson

5 The Norwegian shipbuilding industry after 1945: Production systems, rationalization, and labour relations, with special reference to Bergens Mekaniske Verksteder and Aker Stord 
  Hans-Jakob Ågotnes and Jan Heiret

6 From war reparations to luxury cruise liners: Production changes and labour relations at the Turku shipyard (Finland) between 1950 and 2010
  Kari Teräs