Labour Market Issues

Turgo, N. (2021) Manning the waves: Masculinity shift amongst Filipino seafarers in the age of precarity, Gender Work Organ., 1–17, DOI: 10.1111/gwao.12710

Baum-Talmor, P. and Gekara, V. (2015) 'Flexibility, security and the need for training', Seaways, The International Journal of the Nautical Institute, January, p 16.

Sampson, H. (2013) 'Globalisation, Labour Market Transformation and Migrant Marginalisation: the Example of the Transmigrant Seafarers in Germany', Journal of International Migration and Integration, 14(4): 751-765, DOI 10.1007/s12134-012-0266-0

Leong, P. (2012) 'Understanding the Seafarer Global Labour Market in the Context of a Seafarer 'Shortage', PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.

Winchester, N. and Bailey, N. (2012) Making sense of ‘global’ social justice: Claims for justice in the global labour market for seafarers, Sociological Research Online, 17(4): 10-22.

Turgo, N. (2012) '"Bugabug ang dagat (Rough seas)": Experiencing Foucault's heterotopia in fish trading houses', Social Science Diliman, 8(1): 31-62. 

Galam, R. (2011) 'Navigating Lives: The Spatiotemporality of the Gender Identity, Agency and Subjectivity of Filipino Seamen's Wives', PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.

Calderón-Veiga, M. (2011) ‘Seafarers in Ecuador, A Labour Market Study’, Cardiff: SIRC, September, ISBN 1-900174-40-5.

Zhao, Z. (2011) 'The Human Resource Strategies of Chinese State Crewing Agencies with Special Reference to Labour Export and the Experience of Chinese Seafarers', PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.

Gould, E. (2010) 'Towards a Total Occupation: A Study of UK Merchant Navy Officer Cadetship', PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.

Ellis, N. and Sampson, H. (2008) 'The Global Labour Market for Seafarers: Working Aboard Merchant Cargo Ships 2003', Cardiff: SIRC, June, ISBN: 1-900174-35-9. 

Gekara, V. (2008) 'Globalisation, state strategies and labour in the shipping industry: the UK response to declining shipping skills', PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.

Gekara, V. (2008) 'Are there jobs for all in the shipping industry?', The Sea, Issue 195, Sep/Oct, p 4.

Wu, B., Shen, G. and Li, L. (2007) The Transformation of the Chinese Labour Market for Seafarers, Cardiff: SIRC, ISBN: 1-900174-33-2.

Gekara, V. (2007) 'Increasing shipping skills in the UK: 'Bursting' the industry myth of diminishing interest', SIRC Symposium, Cardiff University, July, ISBN 1-900174-31-6.

Tang, L. (2007) 'The 'presence' of absent seafarers: Predicaments of Chinese seafarer-partners', SIRC Symposium, Cardiff University, July, ISBN 1-900174-31-6.

Winchester, N., Sampson, H. and Shelly, T. (2006) An Analysis of Crewing Levels: Findings from the SIRC Global Labour Market Study, Cardiff: SIRC, ISBN: 1-900174-27-8.

Wu, B. and Morris, J. (2006) 'A life on the ocean wave: the ‘post socialist' careers of Chinese, Russian and Eastern European seafarers', International Journal of Human Resource Management, 17(1): 25-48. DOI: 10.1080/09585190500366201.

Wu, B. Lai, K.H. and Cheng, T.C. (2006) 'Emergence of ‘new professionalism’ amongst Chinese seafarers: empirical evidences and policy implications', Maritime Policy and Management, 33(1): 35-48. DOI: 10.1080/03088830500513246

Kahveci, E. and Nichols, T. (2006) ‘The Other Car Workers’, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 211 pp, ISBN 1-4039-4191-2.

Wu, B. (2005) ‘The World Cruise Industry: A Profile of the Global Labour Market’, Cardiff: SIRC, March, ISBN: 1-900174-25-1.

Wu, B. (2005) ‘Chinese seafarers in transition: trends and evidence’, SIRC Symposium, Cardiff University, July, ISBN 1-900174-26-X.

Wu, B. and Sampson, H. (2005) ‘Reconsidering the Cargo Sector’s Seafarer Labor Market: A 21st Century Profile of Global Seafarers’, Ocean Yearbook, 19: 357-380. DOI:  10.1163/22116001-90000275.

Wu, B. and Winchester N. (2005), ‘Crew Study of Seafarers: A Methodological Approach to the Global Labour Market for Seafarers’. Marine Policy, 29(4): 323-330. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2004.05.006.

Wu, B. and Veiga, J. (2004) ‘EU seafarer careers: Impact of EU enlargement on the seafaring labour market’, Seaways: the International Journal of Nautical Institute, July, pp 24-27, ISSN 0144-1019.

Wu, B. (2004) ‘"Transgration” of Chinese seafarers in economic transition: an institutional perspective on labour mobility’, School of Social Sciences Working Paper Series (64), August, ISBN 1904815308.

Wu, B. (2004) Chinese seafarers in the global labour market: a focus on seafarers as labour export’, in R. Harding, A. Jarvis and A. Kennerley (eds) British Ships in China Seas: 1700 to the Present Day, Society for Nautical Research, Liverpool: National Museums, ISBN 190270025-2.

Wu, B. (2004) ‘Participation in the global labour market: experience and responses of Chinese seafarers’, Maritime Policy and Management’, 31(1): 69-72. DOI: 10.1080/0308883032000168992.

Wu, B. and Morris, J. (2004) ‘Reshaping career route for the global labour market: an empirical study on Chinese seafarers’, Cardiff University Business School Employment Research Unit Nineteenth Annual Conference, Cardiff, 8-9 September.

Amante, M.S.V. (2003) 'Philippine Global Seafarers: A Profile', Cardiff: SIRC.

Obando-Rojas, B. (2003) ‘Increasing your employment potential’, The Sea, Issue 163, May/Jun.

Obando-Rojas, B. (2003) ‘New Jobs for Seafarers in short supply’, The Sea, Issue 162, Mar/Apr.

Obando-Rojas, B. (2003) ANAVE ‘Empleo de marinos’, April (asociacion de navieros espanoles).

Wu, B. (2003) ‘Accessing the global seafaring market’, WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs, 2(1):17-32. DOI: 10.1007/BF03195031.

Zhao, A. and Amante, M.S.V. (2003) ‘Chinese Seafarers and Filipino Seafarers: race to the top or race to the bottom?’, SIRC Symposium 2003, Cardiff University, September 19th, ISBN 1-900174-22-7.

Wu, B. (2003) ‘Chinese seafarers and the global labour market’, Seaways, October Issue, 23-24, ISSN 0144-1019.

Amante, M.S.V. (2003) ‘RP still largest supplier of seafarers in the world’. Philippine Daily Inquirer, Internet edition, 3 July.

Amante, M.S.V. (2003) ‘RP still world’s No. 1 supplier of seafarers’. Seaway Shipping Digest, No. 6, p 5, July.

Lane, A. D., Obando-Rojas, B., Wu, B. and Tasiran, A. (2002) ‘Crewing the International Merchant Fleet’, Lloyd's Register - Fairplay Ltd.

Obando-Rojas, B. (2000) ‘Using Crew Lists to Analyse the Global Maritime Workforce’, Proceedings of International Shipping Federation, 2000 Manning and Training Conference, London, 6 September.

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