Title: Voyages of abuse :
Authors: Couper, A. D.
Date: 1999
Publisher: Pluto Press,
Physical description: 224 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language: English
LC class: V
Contents: 1. 'Us Poor Seamen' -- 2. International Shipping -- 3. Seafarers and Employment -- 4. Failures, Frauds and Abuses -- 5. Adriatic Tankers I: A Short History of the Company -- 6. Adriatic Tankers II: Management and Finance -- 7. Adriatic Tankers III: The Tale of Two Ships -- 8. Seafarers and Their Families and Allies -- 9. The Legal Rights of the Abused and Abandoned -- 10. Towards Global Governance of Shipping -- App. 1. Flags of Convenience and Second Registries, June 1997 -- App. 2. Ship Losses by Flag, 1996 -- App. 3. Examples of Flag of Convenience and Second Registry Enactment of National Laws Giving Effect to ILO Recommendations and Conventions on Repatriation and Wages.