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Høgskolen i Vestfolds skriftserie : utgivelser
i 2001
Dorte Østreng:Sailors - Cosmopolitans or Locals ?Occupational identity of sailors on ships in international trade Tønsberg: Høgskolen
i Vestfold, 2001 About the paper:The paper explores the content and character of workers occupational identity in a highly global workplace. The paper shows that being a sailor has completely different connotations when comparing Norwegian and Filipino sailors. Despite being in a global working environment their occupational identity are truly locally constructed. The paper is originally prepared for the dr.polit course ’The Sociology of Globalization: The Emergence of a Global Society or Globaloney?’, University of Oslo. The paper has been written as part of Østrengs doctoral research project in Sociology ’Interethnic communication among sailors’.
About the Author:Dorte Østreng is a research fellow in Department of Maritime Studies, Vestfold College. She is working on her PhD-project "Inter-Ethnic Communications on Ships in International Trade". From 1996-1999 she was working as an assistant Professor in Sociology in Department of Social Science, Vestfold College. |
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