Global problems, local solutions: Unfree labour relations and seafarer employment with crewing agencies in China
dc.contributor.author | Tang, Lijun | |
dc.contributor.author | Zhang, P | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-05-03T15:31:30Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-08-06 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0019-8692 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1468-2338 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/13773 | |
dc.description.abstract |
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>This article documents and discusses a local labour control regime employed by Chinese crewing agencies to restrict the mobility of newly graduated officer seafarers. The shipping industry relies on a stable and skilled seafarer workforce on flexible employment, assembled globally with the help of local crewing agencies. A stable workforce and flexible employment do not seem easily compatible. This article examines how Chinese crewing agencies help manage this tension in China through analysing the experience of seafarers. It argues that to cater for the demand of international shipping companies, Chinese crewing agencies adopt a particular local labour control regime that re/produces unfree labour relations. The local control regime is built on existing institutional practices in China, structural weaknesses of seafarers and the disjunctions between the local institutional set‐ups and the global chains of labour supply.</jats:p> | |
dc.format.extent | 277-291 | |
dc.language | en | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Wiley | |
dc.subject | 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth | |
dc.title | Global problems, local solutions: Unfree labour relations and seafarer employment with crewing agencies in China | |
dc.type | journal-article | |
dc.type | Journal Article | |
plymouth.issue | 3 | |
plymouth.volume | 50 | |
plymouth.publication-status | Published | |
plymouth.journal | Industrial Relations Journa | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/irj.12252 | |
plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth | |
plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth/Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business | |
plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth/Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business/Plymouth Business School | |
plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth/REF 2021 Researchers by UoA | |
plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth/REF 2021 Researchers by UoA/UoA17 Business and Management Studies | |
plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth/Users by role | |
plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth/Users by role/Academics | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2019-05-03 | |
dc.rights.embargodate | 2021-7-29 | |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1468-2338 | |
dc.rights.embargoperiod | Not known | |
rioxxterms.version | Accepted Manuscript | |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.1111/irj.12252 | |
rioxxterms.licenseref.uri | http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved | |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2019-08-06 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review |