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Fishers and Plunderers
Couper, Alastair; Smith, Hance D.; Ciceri, Bruno
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Description for Fishers and Plunderers
Hardcover. Illuminates fishers' working lives at sea and odious conditions of employment, venturing beyond fishing into criminal activity including piracy Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: KNAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
Abuses and slavery at sea are largely missing from narratives of work and environmental exploitation in the mainstream. This book shines a light on the exploitation of fish and fishers alike in a global industry driven by profits.
Conservation and human rights in this industry are huge problems: with vast overprovision of vessels and shortages of fish, labour costs are targeted and young men are trafficked from poor areas onto vessels in virtual slavery. The resultant poverty and debt bonding pushes many towards trafficking drugs and piracy - although the criminality linked to the industry extends ... Read more
Abuses and slavery at sea are largely missing from narratives of work and environmental exploitation in the mainstream. This book shines a light on the exploitation of fish and fishers alike in a global industry driven by profits.
Conservation and human rights in this industry are huge problems: with vast overprovision of vessels and shortages of fish, labour costs are targeted and young men are trafficked from poor areas onto vessels in virtual slavery. The resultant poverty and debt bonding pushes many towards trafficking drugs and piracy - although the criminality linked to the industry extends ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745335926
SKU
V9780745335926
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Couper, Alastair; Smith, Hance D.; Ciceri, Bruno
Professor Alastair Couper is former Head of the Department of Maritime Studies and International Transport at the University of Cardiff, Wales, UK, and former Director of the Seafarers International Research Centre in that Department, a world-leading maritime studies centre. His books include Voyages of Abuse (Pluto, 1999) and Fishers and Plunderers (Pluto, 2015). He is on the Board of Seafarers' ... Read more
Reviews for Fishers and Plunderers
'Within it are riches and horror'
Rose George, New Statesman 'Alastair has exposed the dirty secret of human rights abuse that borders on genocide of innocent young fishers in an industry infested with criminality where the flag state is absent or where it is victim and culprit at the same time. This book is a challenge to our humanity, ... Read more
Rose George, New Statesman 'Alastair has exposed the dirty secret of human rights abuse that borders on genocide of innocent young fishers in an industry infested with criminality where the flag state is absent or where it is victim and culprit at the same time. This book is a challenge to our humanity, ... Read more