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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Seafarers"”.
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Deconstructing "Abandonment of Seafarers": A study on the transnationality of abandonment of seafarers: To what extent do private actors/shipping industry stakeholders have an impact on abandonment of seafarers?
… Convention amendments concerning abandonment of seafarers are expected to come into force in 2017, something long sought by seafarers’ representatives. The Convention is already considered a success, being referred to as a ‘super convention’ or ‘seafarers’ bill of rights’, and the amendments are …
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Recruitment and retention of seafarers: a maritime industry insight from Myanmar
… the maritime industry, with a focus on Myanmar seafarers and Uniteam Marine, a ship management company. The study examines macro-level factors like globalization, technological advancements and geopolitical dynamics that influence the maritime labour market. Concurrently, it explores meso-level …
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Centro Migrante : self-help housing community for transient seafarers in Manila
The design of sustainable housing in developing countries involves social, economical and technical issues and requires a more global and integrated planning action. In these countries, housing systems need to be designed and planned according to the local and geographical conditions, in order to …
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Casting Aside Bent Bodies: Embodied Violence as an Everyday Experience for Filipino Migrant Seafarers
… regards to the health worlds of Filipino migrant seafarers as one potential way to understand how structural and symbolic violence is embodied. Through structural violence, seafarers are held responsible for their health and well-being and through symbolic violence, they become complicit in the …
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BRITISH SEAMEN'S MISSIONS AND SAILORS HOMES 1815 TO 1970 VOLUNTARY WELFARE PROVISION FOR SERVING SEAFARERS
… spiritual and social welfare support to serving seafarers. The perspective taken in this study is that although there were numerous individual societies, voluntary effort for seafarers constitutes a single movement. The continued existence of many societies well into the twentieth century …
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Migrant Filipino Seafarers In the Global Cruise Industry: Discourse, Risk and the Geographic Limits to Labor Flexibility
… With this dissertation, I focus on Filipino seafarers working aboard cruise ships in order to illustrate how this most globalized industry is organized around a particular geography of work in the global economy that creates a skilled yet disadvantaged labor force. I argue that particular …
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Exploitation at Sea: Examining the Structural Failings of an International Legal Regime
… related to the rights and labour conditions of seafarers have been adopted under the auspices of the ILO, far exceeding the international regulations adopted for any other industry. Yet exploitation against seafarers persists. The abandonment of seafarers within ports is a frequent occurrence, …
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Investigating The Impact Of Human Resource Practices On The Experiences Of Nigerian Seafaring Officers: An In-depth Analysis Of The Shipping Industry In Nigeria
… challenges and opportunities faced by Nigerian seafarers amid current low demand. It explores the professional, economic, and psychological impacts of reduced workforce demand, including fewer job opportunities, poor working conditions, and diminished job satisfaction. Additionally, it assesses …
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Human resource management in the shipping industry
… examines the ways merchant marine officers (seafarers), working for British and European companies, are managed, through the theoretical specification and empirical evaluation of issues and practices associated with the seafaring employment relationship, including prospects for `progressive …
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Factors influencing the incidence rates of injuries and accidents among seafarers and rig workers providing support to the WA offshore oil and gas industry
… associated with injuries and accidents among seafarers and rig workers providing support to the WA offshore oil and gas industry. These incidents cause significant personal and economic burdens for employees, employers and the community in general. A sample of 484 participants were recruited …
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The impact of safety culture on safety performance: a study of the high speed passenger craft industry in Hong Kong
… past serious marine accidents revealed that the seafarers involved were qualified and experienced, but failed to observe the written procedures of the company’s safety management system (SMS). The success of the SMS is dependent on the effectiveness of the organization’s safety culture. More …
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Navigating gods and monsters: the production of safe insecure spatialities in the deterrence of risk at sea
… at sea, particularly piracy, are represented to seafarers in tools that guide their transit of the 71% of the earth's surface that constitutes our oceans and seas subjectively and relatively – taking stock of the fluidity of the sea and human mobilities aboard merchant vessels as they propel the …
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Music, identity, and the impact of tourism in the Portuguese Settlement, Melaka, Malaysia
… the romantic picture of adventurous Portuguese seafarers who arrived in 1511, were captivated by local beauties, and left a human legacy that has survived against all odds. In this dissertation, I examine how a distinct Portuguese community has, in fact, been constructed over the last half …
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Troubling the Water: Dismantling the Ideology of Separate Spheres
… class male sailors (and women who wrote about seafarers), then discusses women who passed as sailors, and concludes by examining middle-class women who accompanied their husbands to sea. I have chosen this structure to reflect the hierarchical setting of a ship and also antebellum society. In …
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Il lavoro marittimo nell’era della globalizzazione e della digitalizzazione
… shipowners to guarantee minimum conditions for seafarers. This research has an innovative and original approach. Maritime labour law is a rather neglected branch of legal studies. Only few researchers have investigated this subject. In particular, an organic study on this topic still represents …
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Production of Filipino Cruise Ship Workers
… present a decline in the dominance of Filipino seafarers due to the inadequacies of educational institutions serving the maritime industry. The concept of Filipino-ness provides an understanding of the limits to advancement of Filipinos in the cruise ship industry due to the impact of culture …
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Integrated Maritime Simulation Complex Management, Quality And Training Effectiveness From The Perspective Of Modeling And Simulation In The State Of Florida, USA (A Case Study)
… vessels around the globe. However, professional seafarers are the axis of success and competitiveness in the field of maritime training. They are the ones that, who are well trained and have the responsibilities of their work and the surrounding environment. In order to achieve the success along …
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Internationalising Chinese Maritime Higher Education: Developing Content and English Language Integrated Teaching and Learning
… and training. The global labour market for seafarers, which is dominated by employers from traditional maritime nations, demands internationally minded graduates. China’s response to these demands for quality labour exports from new maritime nations is the subject of exploration in this …
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Wicing Sceal on Waelstowe: The Viking Maxim in The Battle of Maldon
… Vikings are referred to in a practical manner as seafarers or warriors. It is my contention that the Maldon poet treats the Vikings as natural parts of the battlefield, as if they had their own maxim pairing and were acting according to expectation. By defining how maxims function in the Old …
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"Inside that fortress sat a few peasant men, and it was half-made": a study of 'Viking' fortifications in the British Isles, AD793-1066
… The popular representation of these Scandinavian seafarers is often as drunken, bloodthirsty heathens who rampaged across Britain leaving a trail of destruction in their wake. Excavations at Coppergate, York and Dublin however, show that the Vikings developed craft and industry wherever they …
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