ERC Starting Grant · 2021
Digitalized Ports, Racialized Labor: Shifting Infrastructures for Work in Container Shipping
Container shipping has implications for everyone who has ever shopped in a store or online. Shipping is the backbone of the global economy. 90% of the world?s goods travel by ship. The industry has a global reach and a highly diverse workforce. It is also structured by workers? nationalities, resulting in inequalities. Inequalities occur within ships, where some European workers systematically receive higher wages, and between regions, where labor conditions vary. Shipping is currently undergoing rapid change as it digitalizes its workflows. It is unknown if digitalization will help or hinder worker equality, or for which groups. Technology can increase workers? skills and make travel safer…
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