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Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea Author: Penny McCall Howard

ISBN: 9781784994143 Format: Hardcover Number Of Pages: 242 Published: 17 January 2017 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 24.4 x 16.5 x 1.9 Description: 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 the lives of fishers are deeply affected by capitalist forces in the markets they sell to. These forces shape even the relations between fishers on the same boat. Fishers frequently had 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 fishers' technologies and navigation practices. It 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 deeply fishing practices and social relations are shaped by political economy. It will be read in universities by social scientists and anthropologists and...

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