Internet Access for Seafarer Welfare or Managerial Control? The Experience of Chinese Seafarers
研究船员上网对生活的影响，发现管理者利用上网侵占休息时间以增加工作量，揭示船员结构性弱势。
ABSTRACT 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.