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Penny Mccall Howard

Environment, Labour and Capitalism at sea

'Working the ground' in Scotland

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This book explores how fishers make the sea productive through their labour, using technologies ranging from wooden boats to digital GPS plotters to create familiar places in a seemingly hostile environment. It shows how their lives are affected by capitalist forces in the markets they sell to, forces that shape even the relations between fishers on the same boat. Fishers frequently have to make impossible choices between safe seamanship and staying afloat economically, and the book describes the human impact of the high rate of deaths in the fishing industry. The book makes a unique contribution to understanding human-environment relations,… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-5261-1457-0
  • EAN: 9781526114570
  • Produktnummer: 27907458
  • Verlag: Canongate Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 288 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 8'534 KB
  • Abbildungen: 44 black & white illustrations, 5 graphs

Über den Autor


Penny McCall Howard is National Research Officer for the Maritime Union of Australia

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