Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea

Name: Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea
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'Working the Ground' in Scotland

By Penny McCall Howard

Series: New Ethnographies

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Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea explores the complex relationship between fishers and the sea, revealing how they use labour and technology—from wooden boats to digital GPS—to transform a hostile environment into familiar places. The book delves into the impacts of capitalist market forces on fishers' lives and relationships, highlighting their struggle between safe seamanship and economic survival, alongside the human toll of high mortality rates in the industry. Combining phenomenology and political economy, it offers fresh insights into human-environment interactions and maritime navigation.
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This book is ideal for students, researchers, and readers interested in environmental studies, labour relations, maritime industries, and the socio-economic dynamics of capitalism at sea.

This book combines phenomenology and political economy to offer new approaches for analyses of human-environment relations and technologies. It contributes to the social studies of fisheries through an analysis of how fishing practices and social relations are shaped by political economy.

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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.

Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea makes a unique contribution to understanding human-environment relations, examining the places fishers create and name at sea, as well as technologies and navigation practices. It combines phenomenology and political economy to offer new approaches for analyses of human-environment relations and technologies.

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'Brilliant...boldly bridging the conceptual gap between studies of work and the environment, McCall Howard's ethnography charts an innovative and ambitious course for research on the Anthropocene...tremendously compelling.'
Brandon Hunter-Pazzara, Current Anthropology

'As Howard makes clear capital and its drive to profit must be challenged—this book is a weapon in that fight.'

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Written with an intimate knowledge of fishing and the sea, based on the Scottish industry, the book profoundly explores how class relations shape labour, environments, and life and death at sea.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781784994143

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 12 April 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Manchester University Press

Illustration: 44 black & white illustrations, 5 graphs

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 517g

Pages: 248

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About the Author

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

Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea