Internet Access for Seafarer Welfare or Managerial Control? The Experience of Chinese Seafarers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21334716 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zhiwei Zhao (0000-0002-4046-3785, Seafarers Research Institute Dalian Maritime University Dalian China, corresponding author), Lijun Tang (0000-0002-6815-0625, Plymouth Business School University of Plymouth Plymouth UK) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 287-296 |
| Publication date | 2026-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Industrial Relations Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-8692 • E-ISSN: 1468-2338 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/irj.70035 |
| OpenAlex | W7141988056 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 49 |
This paper examines the impact of internet access on ships on the lives of seafarers. Although the intention behind providing internet access for seafarers is to enrich life at sea and improve welfare, the findings show that, in practice, managers exploit seafarers' internet access as a means to further their own interests, encroaching upon seafarers' rest time in order to get more work done. The ability of management to appropriate internet access to extract more work from seafarers is underpinned by the structural weakness of seafarers
Exploit · Internet access · Order (exchange) · The Internet · Welfare · Work (physics) · Cruise Tourism Development and Management · Law, logistics, and international trade · Maritime Navigation and Safety
China's Development and Harmonization
Edwards Revisited
Labor and Monopoly Capital
Depletion through transnational social reproduction
Living at work
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on seafarers’ mental health and chronic fatigue
Fatigue at sea during and after the Covid-19 pandemic
Ship first
Seafarers’ mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic
Comparison of perceived fatigue levels of seafarers and management approaches in fatigue mitigation
‘I Can Just Do Work I'm Paid to Do’
Defending workers' rights on social media
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‘An assembly line in the head’
Assessing the growth of remote working and its consequences for effort, well‐being and work‐life balance
Enhanced job satisfaction under tighter technological control
Local Labour Control Regimes
Being yourself ’ in the electronic sweatshop
The ship as home
Observations of Shipboard Illness Behavior
Moral mobilization in the digital space
Beyond the Dormitory Labour Regime
The Impact of Remote Work on Managerial Compliance
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Manufacturing rate busters
Managerial control and workplace regimes
Putting transnational labour process in its place
The double indeterminacy of labour power
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |