1. Introduction Marcel van der Linden, Hugh Murphy, and Raquel Varela Acknowledgements NORTH-WESTERN EUROPE 2. Labour in the British shipbuilding and ship repairing industries in the twentieth century Hugh Murphy 3. Bremer Vulkan: A case study of the West German shipbuilding industry and its narratives in the second half of the twentieth century Johanna Wolf 4. From boom to bust: Kockums, Malmö (Sweden), 1950-1986 Tobias Karlsson 5. The Norwegian shipbuilding industry after 1945: Production systems, rationalization, and labour relations, with special reference to Bergens Mekaniske Verksteder and Aker Stord Hans-Jakob Ågotnes and Jan Heiret 6. From war reparations to luxury cruise liners: Production changes and labour relations at the Turku shipyard (Finland) between 1950 and 2010 Kari Teräs 7. The Dutch shipbuilding industry, 1950-2012 Sjaak van der Velden SOUTHERN AND EASTERN EUROPE 8. Always on the verge of sinking: Labour and production in the Sestri Ponente shipyard, Genoa (Italy), 1950-2014 Giulia Strippoli, Davide Tabor, and Luciano Villani 9. Work, workers, and labour conflicts in the shipyard Bazán/Navantia-Ferrol, Galicia (Spain), 1950-2014 José Gómez Alén 10. Against market rules: A Spanish shipyard nobody wanted (except workers) Rubén Vega García 11. Labour relations in a Portuguese shipyard: The case of Setenave Jorge Fontes 12. Work in the Portuguese shipyards of Lisnave: From the right to work to precariousness of employment Raquel Varela and Ana Rajado 13. The Gdansk Shipyard: Production regime and workers conflicts in the 1970s and 1980s in the People's Republic of Poland Sarah Graber Majchrzak 14. The shipbuilding industry in Galati (Romania) under Communism, 1948-1989 Constantin Ardeleanu THE AMERICAS AND AUSTRALIA 15. Charting a new course: US shipbuilding labour, 1950-2014 Robin Dearmon Muhammad 16. The Argentinean shipbuilding industry: Workers' struggles in a state shipyard Cintia Russo 17. Production and labour of a state-owned enterprise: A case study of an Argentinean shipyard, Astillero Río Santiago Juliana Frassa 18. Labour in the Brazilian shipbuilding industry: A contribution to an analysis of the recovery period Claudiana Guedes de Jesus 19. Brazilian shipbuilding and workers between tradition and innovation: Shipyards Caneco/Rio Nave and Mauá - Rio de Janeiro, 1950-2014 Elina G. da Fonte Pessanha and Luisa Barbosa Pereira 20. Cockatoo Island, Australia: Industry, labour, and protest culture Lisa Milner ASIA 21. Evolution and development of the shipbuilding industry in Bharati Shipyard Ltd, Maharashtra (India), from the 1970s to 2010: Employer, employee, and production perspectives S. M. Fahimuddin Pasha 22. Shipbuilding and shipbuilders in Thailand Nicola Mocci 23. The lower labour market and the development of the post-war Japanese shipbuilding industry Takeshi Haraguchi and Kazuya Sakurada 24. The evolution of labour relations in the South Korean shipbuilding industry: A case study of Hanjin Heavy Industries, 1950-2014 Wonchul Shin 25. China, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and Vietnam Hugh Murphy 26. Some final observations Hugh Murphy and Marcel van der Linden Appendix 1: The effects of the oil price shocks on shipbuilding in the 1970s Hugh Murphy and Stig Tenold Appendix 2: Shipbuilding in 2013: An analysis of shipbuilding statistics Victoria Culkin Glossary of shipping and shipbuilding terms List of Tables, Graphs, and Figures Collective bibliography Notes on contributors Index