Multinationals of the sea: employment practices and the local context

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO
Author/s Emanuele Nebbia Colomba
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2024/169
Language Italian Pages 18 P. 114-131 File size 222 KB
DOI 10.3280/SL2024-169006
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The article explores the role of union identities and local actors in the production location choices of multinationals in the shipping industry; a topic little explored in the literature. It emerges from the in-depth case study that the union identity of dockworkers and the dynamism of local actors played a key role in the choice to “de-localize” their port traffic by two major shipowners. The article also contributes to an in-depth study of the reasons for the Port of La Spezia's rise in seaport rankings through the use of a meth-odology at the intersection between social history and labor sociology with élite interviews, archival documents, and newspapers analysis.

Keywords: Multinationals’ Employment Practices; Port Labor; Local Actors; Trade Union Identities

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Emanuele Nebbia Colomba, Multinazionali del mare: pratiche occupazionali e contesto locale in "SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO " 169/2024, pp 114-131, DOI: 10.3280/SL2024-169006