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Environment, labour and capitalism at sea : 'working the ground' in Scotland / Penny McCall Howard.

Title
Environment, labour and capitalism at sea : 'working the ground' in Scotland / Penny McCall Howard.
Author
Howard, Penny McCall
Publication
Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2017]

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Description
x, 227 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.
Summary
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 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. --
Series Statement
New ethnographies
Uniform Title
New ethnographies.
Alternative Title
Environment, labor and capitalism at sea
Subject
  • Fisheries > Social aspects > Scotland
  • Fisheries > Environmental aspects > Scotland
  • Fisheries > Economic aspects > Scotland
  • Fisheries > Economic aspects
  • Fisheries > Environmental aspects
  • Fisheries > Social aspects
  • BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General
  • Scotland
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-222) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. I metabolism of labour and environment -- 1. Ẁorking the ground' -- 2. From Wullie's Peak to the Burma: naming places at sea -- pt. II Techniques and technologies -- 3. Techniques to extend the body and its senses -- 4. From ẁhere am I?' to ẁhere is that?' Rethinking navigation -- pt. III Capitalism and class -- 5. Ỳou just can't get a price': the difference political economy makes -- 6. Structural violence in ecological systems.
ISBN
  • 9781784994143 (hbk.)
  • 1784994146
LCCN
^^2017385752
OCLC
954426095
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library