Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. 1. Introduction 15
4. North-western Europe
5. 2. Labour in the British shipbuilding and ship repairing industries in the twentieth century 47
6. 3. Bremer Vulkan. A case study of the West German shipbuilding industry and its narratives in the second half of the twentieth century 117
7. 4. From boom to bust. Kockums, Malmö (Sweden), 1950-1986 143
8. 5. The Norwegian shipbuilding industry after 1945. Production systems, rationalisation, and labour relations, with special reference to Bergens Mekaniske Verksteder and Aker Stord 165
9. 6. From war reparations to luxury cruise liners. Production changes and labour relations at the Turku shipyard (Finland) between 1950 and 2010 193
10. 7. The Dutch shipbuilding industry, 1950-2012 221
11. Southern and Eastern Europe
12. 8. Always on the verge of sinking. Labour and production in the Sestri Ponente shipyard, Genoa (Italy), 1950-2014 249
13. 9. Work, workers, and labour conflicts in the shipyard Bazán /Navantia-Ferrol, Galicia (Spain), 1950-2014 281
14. 10. Against market rules. A Spanish shipyard nobody wanted (except workers) 305
15. 11. Labour relations in a Portuguese shipyard. The case of Setenave 319
16. 12. Work in the Portuguese shipyards of Lisnave. From the right to work to precariousness of employment 339
17. 13. The Gdańsk Shipyard. Production regime and workers’ conflicts in the 1970s and 1980s in the People’s Republic of Poland 365
18. 14. The shipbuilding industry in Galați (Romania) under communism, 1948-1989 397
19. The Americas and Australia
20. 15. Charting a new course. US shipbuilding labour, 1950-2014 421
21. 16. The Argentinean shipbuilding industry. Workers’ struggles in a state shipyard 437
22. 17. Production and labour of a stateowned enterprise. A case study of an Argentinean shipyard, Astillero Río Santiago 457
23. 18. Labour in the Brazilian shipbuilding industry. A contribution to an analysis of the recovery period 477
24. 19. Brazilian shipbuilding and workers between tradition and innovation. Shipyards Caneco/Rio Nave and Mauá – Rio de Janeiro, 1950-2014 491
25. 20. Cockatoo Island, Australia. Industry, labour, and protest culture 519
26. Asia
27. 21. Evolution and development of the shipbuilding industry in Bharati Shipyard Ltd, Maharashtra (India), from the 1970s to 2010. Employer, employee, and production perspectives 547
28. 22. Shipbuilding and shipbuilders in Thailand 563
29. 23. The lower labour market and the development of the post-war Japanese shipbuilding industry 591
30. 24. The evolution of labour relations in the South Korean shipbuilding industry. A case study of Hanjin Heavy Industries, 1950-2014 615
31. 25. China, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and Vietnam 637
32. 26. Some final observations 657
33. Appendix 1: The effects of the oil price shocks on shipbuilding in the 1970s 665
34. Appendix 2: Shipbuilding in 2013: an analysis of shipbuilding statistics 675
35. Glossary of shipping and shipbuilding terms 683
36. Collective bibliography 699
37. Notes on contributors 731
38. Index 741