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Penny McCall Howard - Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea: ´Working the Ground´ in Scotland - 9781784994143 - V9781784994143
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Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea: ´Working the Ground´ in Scotland

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Description for Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea: ´Working the Ground´ in Scotland Hardback. .
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
New Ethnographies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784994143
SKU
V9781784994143
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2

About Penny McCall Howard
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 -- .

Reviews for Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea: ´Working the Ground´ in Scotland
'As Howard makes clear capital and its drive to profit must be challenged-this book is a weapon in that fight.' Sarah Ensor, International Socialism, A quarterly review of socialist theory How do the fishers relate to each other, their boats, their technologies, the sea, their catches? In this deeply researched book, written with an intimate feel ... Read more

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