Environment, labour and capitalism at sea
Working the ground' in Scotland
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,…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5261-4369-3
- EAN: 9781526143693
- Produktnummer: 30539477
- Verlag: Manchester University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 248 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.3 cm 383 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 383
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Penny McCall Howard is National Research Officer for the Maritime Union of Australia and is an Honorary Associate in the Anthropology Department of the University of Sydney
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