Building Ships, Building a Nation examines the rise and fall, during the rule of Park Chung Hee (1961-79), of the combative labor union at the Korea Shipbuilding and Engineering Corporation (KSEC), ...which was Korea's largest shipyard until Hyundai appeared on the scene in the early 1970s. Drawing on the union's extraordinary and extensive archive, Hwasook Nam focuses on the perceptions, attitudes, and discourses of the mostly male heavy-industry workers at the shipyard and on the historical and sociopolitical sources of their militancy. Inspired by legacies of labor activism from the colonial and immediate postcolonial periods, KSEC union workers fought for equality, dignity, and a voice for labor as they struggled to secure a living wage that would support families.
The standard view of the South Korean labor movement sees little connection between the immediate postwar era and the period since the 1970s and largely denies positive legacies coming from the period of Japanese colonialism in Korea. Contrary to this conventional view, Nam charts the importance of these historical legacies and argues that the massive mobilization of workers in the postwar years, even though it ended in defeat, had a major impact on the labor movement in the following decades.
In this innovative study, Jun Kimura integrates historical data with archaeological findings to examine a wide array of eleventh- through nineteenth-century ships from China, Korea, and Japan. ...Chinese junks and Japanese sailing ships were known throughout the world, and this work illustrates why their innovative designs have survived the centuries.
Kimura presents an extensive dataset of excavated coastal and oceangoing ships that traveled the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea. Three detailed case studies include the Shinan and Quanzhou wrecks and the Takashima underwater site. Using travel documents, cargo manifests, iconographic paintings, and other descriptive resources, as well as the archaeological evidence of hull components, wooden timbers, and iron remains, Kimura sheds new light on East Asian shipbuilding traditions.
This comprehensive study examines British shipbuilding and industrial relations from 1870 to 1950, addressing economic, social and political history to provide an holistic approach to industry, ...trade-unionism and the early history of the Labour Party. Examining the impact of new machinery, of independent rank-and-file movements and of craft and trade unions, The Tide of Democracy provides an authoritative account of industrial action in shipyards in the period and their effect on the birth and development of the Labour Party. This volume is clearly presented, elegantly written and suffused with a distinctly human touch which brings the technical material to life. Unique in the combined attention it gives to Scottish and English history, and drawing upon an impressive range of primary sources, this volume will be indispensable for specialist researchers, undergraduates and postgraduate students.
Despite the importance of the shipbuilding industry to the nation’s economic growth as well as to move people, goods, and services between the islands, Indonesia’s maritime infrastructure had been ...neglected by the government. In addition, the organisation of production in this project-based sector has been overlooked in the academic literature. To address these gaps, this thesis explores the competitiveness and governance of the Indonesian shipbuilding industry. A study of Indonesian shipbuilding industry was undertaken through qualitative fifty-two semi-structured interviews and desk-based research to understand the source of shipyard’s competitiveness. The conceptual framework integrates the concept of competitiveness and governance, and the analysis is focused on the project-based relationships occurs in three different levels of: firm-level (micro relationship), local production network (meso relationship), and global production network (macro relationship). The research makes a contribution to current conceptions of the organisation of production and the competitiveness of Project-Based Firm (PBF). Shipyard as a PBF undertaking complex and various form of decision making in order to complete and deliver shipbuilding project. To remain competitive, shipyard required to strategically balance the degree of involvement of LPN and GPN depending on the nature of the contract, the shipyard’s current capacity, and the type of product ordered. Taking into account the importance of firm and non-firm actors, the conceptual framework of Project-based Production Networks (PPN) was developed to guide the analysis.
Maritime trade is the backbone of the world’s economy. Around ninety percent of all goods are transported by ship, and since World War II, shipbuilding has undergone major changes in response to new ...commercial pressures and opportunities. Early British dominance, for example, was later undermined in the 1950s by competition from the Japanese, who have since been overtaken by South Korea and, most recently, China. The case studies in this volume trace these and other important developments in the shipbuilding and ship repair industries, as well as workers’ responses to these historic transformations.
Chinese sailing ships, often called “junks,” were a flexibly technology that economized on materials, a key to both the military and commercial flourishing of Qing China (c. 1644-1912) until the ...Opium War (1839-42). During periods of conflict, shipwrights incorporated new designs to maximize speed, maneuverability, and firepower. During periods of peace, they responded to regulatory constraints and limitations in the timber supply. The principal timber, China fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata), remained widely available thanks to flourishing plantations. However, shipbuilding put serious pressure on slower-growing tree species, and the demand for timber furthered the colonization of the southwest and Taiwan. The main government response to regional scarcity and rising timber prices was to economize, while many private shipbuilders shifted their operations to Southeast Asia. Catastrophic defeat by the British steamship Nemisis signaled the end of junks’ military dominance, although they remained commercially important for another century.
The shipbuilding industry has been drastically affected by demand fluctuations. Currently, it faces intense global competition and a crisis because of an imbalance between supply and demand. This ...imbalance of supply and demand is caused by an excess of shipbuilding capacity. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has considered adjusting the shipbuilding capacity to reduce the imbalance based on the demand forecast. On the other hand, demand forecast of shipbuilding is a complex issue because the demand is influenced indirectly by adjustments in shipbuilding capacity. Therefore, it is important to examine the influence of construction capacity adjustments on the future demand of ships based on demand forecasting for the sustainable growth of the shipbuilding industry. In this study, shipbuilding capacity adjustment is considered using a proposed simulation system based on a demand-forecasting model. Additionally, the system dynamics model of a previous study is improved by developing a ship price-prediction model for evaluating the shipbuilding capacity-adjustment scenario. We conduct simulations using the proposed demand-forecasting model and system to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed model and system. Furthermore, several shipbuilding capacity-adjustment scenarios are discussed using the proposed system.
The Mortella wrecks are the remains of two
navi
, Genoese seagoing merchant ships, sunk in 1527 in the Bay of Saint-Florent (Upper-Corsica, France) during the Seventh Italian War. A programme of ...archaeological excavations and historical research has been held on one of them,
Mortella III
, between 2010 and 2020. It has involved a multidisciplinary team around a European research project called
ModernShip
(Horizon 2020), whose objective is to shed light on Mediterranean shipbuilding during the Renaissance, a field still little known to this day.
At the end of these 10 years, the aim of the present article is to conclude this research programme with the presentation of a scientific review that complements a recently published monograph on the
Mortella III
wreck. This study presents the latest results on the ship's architecture obtained during the excavation of the wreck in 2019, including a study of the wood of the framework.
Finally, this article broadens our understanding of the
nave
presenting the results of a collaborative line of research on material culture with three studies in close connection with the ship architecture: artillery, anchors and ceramics.
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