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Seafarers: A Review of Recent Research

Seafarers: A Review of Recent Research Maritime Transport and Security David Glen* Centre for International Transport Management, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom INTRODUCTION The seafarer has often inspired a romantic, even heroic, image in the arts. Walt Whitman's poem A Song for all seas, all ships inspired Ralph Vaughan Williams' magnificent Sea Symphony, which depicts the pleasures and perils of being a seafarer. Modern reality, is as always, more prosaic. Indeed, the history of the working lives of seafarers is one of a hard, sometimes dangerous, and quite often short, working experience.} The manning of the world fleet is the raison d' etre of seafaring activity. It creates the demand for seafarers, which is derived (just as the demand for the ships themselves) from the demand for transportation services. In a sense, both ships and seafarers are factor inputs that are jointly demanded to generate the transport service. The demand for seafarers is driven by the number of ships that nstitute the world's fleet, together with the national and international rules that determine how those ships may be legally operated. The rules include regulations that ver working nditions, employment rights, manning agreements, training, qualifications, and wages. In many un tries, the demand for seafarers, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Ocean Yearbook Online Brill

Seafarers: A Review of Recent Research

Glen, David
Ocean Yearbook Online , Volume 19 (1): 253 – Jan 1, 2005
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Copyright 2005 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0191-8575
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Maritime Transport and Security David Glen* Centre for International Transport Management, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom INTRODUCTION The seafarer has often inspired a romantic, even heroic, image in the arts. Walt Whitman's poem A Song for all seas, all ships inspired Ralph Vaughan Williams' magnificent Sea Symphony, which depicts the pleasures and perils of being a seafarer. Modern reality, is as always, more prosaic. Indeed, the history of the working lives of seafarers is one of a hard, sometimes dangerous, and quite often short, working experience.} The manning of the world fleet is the raison d' etre of seafaring activity. It creates the demand for seafarers, which is derived (just as the demand for the ships themselves) from the demand for transportation services. In a sense, both ships and seafarers are factor inputs that are jointly demanded to generate the transport service. The demand for seafarers is driven by the number of ships that nstitute the world's fleet, together with the national and international rules that determine how those ships may be legally operated. The rules include regulations that ver working nditions, employment rights, manning agreements, training, qualifications, and wages. In many un tries, the demand for seafarers,

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Published: Jan 1, 2005

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