Abstract
In the 1980s, shipping provided a salient industry-specific example of several aspects of work practice reform and industrial relations restructuring. The international technological and market conditions coupled with the main institutions and directions of change are analyzed in this article. The essential findings support the view that a new industrial relations has to a considerable extent grown up in shipping and developed new functions which were not highly profiled in the framework of organizations and processes that existed at the beginning of the decade.
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