
Big Ship Capitalism with Laleh Khalili
The Dig
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The Reports of the Mission to Seafarers During the Tanker Wars
The reports that are coming out during the tanker wars out of these missions are utterly harrowing to read. And then in these reports that i've been reading of the mission to seafarers, what is kind of herrific is how uncaring the shipping companies are. You would think that a ship that has just undergone a massive bombing, and where as you say, working class seafarer from all parts of the world have just had this incredibly traumatic experience. But wedid, we didn't hear those stories, at least as far as i can remember, and certainly not in the sources that i used in order to write the book.
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