Lives in Peril: Profit or Safety in the Global Maritime Industry?

by David Walters, Nick Bailey, Nathan Bailey

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230573835
• ISBN13: 9780230573833
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"