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Skill formation and income: Insights from the Indonesian migrant workers

open access: yesSocial Sciences and Humanities Open
Indonesia is among the top five countries with the highest number of seafarers globally and this seafaring expertise extends to Indonesian migrant workers on cruise ships.
Padang Wicaksono   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Investigation of Work, Life and Community On-board Cruise Ships: A Hospitality Perspective

open access: yes
This research provides a sociological understanding of front line hospitality staff, focusing particularly on waiters and pursers that are employed on cruise ships.
Dennett, Adam
core  

Cruise Ships: Influencing the City of Venice

open access: yes, 2010
The ultimate goal of our project was to develop a publicly accessible profile of the positive and negative economic, social, and environmental impacts of cruise ships and their passengers on the city.
Vautrin, Ryan Thomas   +3 more
core  

A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
wiley   +1 more source

THE CONTESTED CITY OF VENICE: Caring for Commodified Common Infrastructures in a Touristified Environment

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this essay I reveal contested common infrastructures in the interplay between vanishing public infrastructures in Venice and lack of care by governmental actors in a city with a shrinking number of inhabitants. I examine care and commodified public infrastructures in heritage cities facing mass tourism and climate change effects by zooming ...
Cornelia Dlabaja
wiley   +1 more source

Feasibility of Zero-Emission Cruise Ships: A Novel Hydrogen Tri-Generation System for Propulsion and Hotel Loads

open access: yesJournal of Marine Science and Engineering
The decarbonization of large cruise ships is challenged by their extreme and tightly coupled electrical, thermal, and cooling demands. This study investigates a liquid hydrogen (LH2)-based tri-generation system for cruise ships that simultaneously ...
Albert Gil-Esmendia   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source

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