Landlubbers and Seadogs provides an authoritative account of how increasing globalization in ocean shipping and the broader maritime sector challenges the entwined shipping communities of traditional maritime nations (TMNs), such as the EU Member States or the US. Especially challenging in this process is the continuous globalization of the maritime labor force, and, more particularly, of the seafarers' profession, the localization of which has fundamentally shifted to the new maritime nations (NMNs) in primarily former ...
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Landlubbers and Seadogs provides an authoritative account of how increasing globalization in ocean shipping and the broader maritime sector challenges the entwined shipping communities of traditional maritime nations (TMNs), such as the EU Member States or the US. Especially challenging in this process is the continuous globalization of the maritime labor force, and, more particularly, of the seafarers' profession, the localization of which has fundamentally shifted to the new maritime nations (NMNs) in primarily former East-bloc countries and Southeast Asia. Through a longitudinal empirical analysis of developments in labor mobility within the maritime sector in Denmark, the book shows that the shipping companies have historically been significant providers of competence to the national maritime skills base, but also that their current global sourcing choices threaten to dissolve this skills base. These findings, which support and extend earlier findings from several other TMNs, have
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