Transnational solidarity in mobile work: seafarers’ unions and welfare organizations

Transnational solidarity in mobile work: seafarers’ unions and welfare organizations

A MoLab Conversation with Luisa Piart and Biao Xiang


Transnational solidarity in mobile work: seafarers’ unions and welfare organizations

The shipping industry is one of the most globalized business sectors, as are seafarers’ unions and welfare organizations. In this MoLab instalment, Luisa Piart and Biao Xiang discuss the remarkably efficient transnational labour and welfare organisations serving the interest of seafarers in many port cities around the world.

Luisa Piart is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Conversation recorded on 27 July 2021

 

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