1. Introduction[-]Marcel van der Linden, Hugh Murphy, and Raquel Varela[-][-]Acknowledgements[-][-]NORTH-WESTERN EUROPE[-][-]2. Labour in the British shipbuilding and ship repairing industries in the twentieth century[-]Hugh Murphy[-][-]3. Bremer Vulkan: A case study of the West German shipbuilding industry and its narratives in the second half of the twentieth century[-]Johanna Wolf[-][-]4. From boom to bust: Kockums, Malm (Sweden), 1950-1986[-]Tobias Karlsson[-][-]5. The Norwegian shipbuilding industry after 1945: Production systems, rationalization, and labour relations, with special reference to Bergens Mekaniske Verksteder and Aker Stord [-]Hans-Jakob gotnes and Jan Heiret[-][-]6. From war reparations to luxury cruise liners: Production changes and labour relations at the Turku shipyard (Finland) between 1950 and 2010[-]Kari Ter s[-][-]7. The Dutch shipbuilding industry, 1950-2012 [-]Sjaak van der Velden[-][-]SOUTHERN AND EASTERN EUROPE[-][-]8. Always on the verge of sinking: Labour and production in the Sestri Ponente shipyard, Genoa (Italy), 1950-2014[-]Giulia Strippoli, Davide Tabor, and Luciano Villani[-][-]9. Work, workers, and labour conflicts in the shipyard Baz n/Navantia-Ferrol, Galicia (Spain), 1950-2014[-]Jos G mez Al n[-][-]10. Against market rules: A Spanish shipyard nobody wanted (except workers)[-]Rub n Vega Garc a[-][-]11. Labour relations in a Portuguese shipyard: The case of Setenave [-]Jorge Fontes[-][-]12. Work in the Portuguese shipyards of Lisnave: From the right to work to precariousness of employment [-]Raquel Varela and Ana Rajado[-][-]13. The Gdansk Shipyard: Production regime and workers conflicts in the 1970s and 1980s in the People's Republic of Poland [-]Sarah Graber Majchrzak[-][-]14. The shipbuilding industry in Galati (Romania) under Communism, 1948-1989[-]Constantin Ardeleanu[-][-]THE AMERICAS AND AUSTRALIA[-][-]15. Charting a new course: US shipbuilding labour, 1950-2014[-]Robin Dearmon Muhammad[-][-]16. The Argentinean shipbuilding industry: Workers' struggles in a state shipyard [-]Cintia Russo[-][-]17. Production and labour of a state-owned enterprise: A case study of an Argentinean shipyard, Astillero R o Santiago[-]Juliana Frassa[-][-]18. Labour in the Brazilian shipbuilding industry: A contribution to an analysis of the recovery period [-]Claudiana Guedes de Jesus[-][-]19. Brazilian shipbuilding and workers between tradition and innovation: Shipyards Caneco/Rio Nave and Mau - Rio de Janeiro, 1950-2014[-]Elina G. da Fonte Pessanha and Luisa Barbosa Pereira[-][-]20. Cockatoo Island, Australia: Industry, labour, and protest culture[-]Lisa Milner[-][-]ASIA[-][-]21. Evolution and development of the shipbuilding industry in Bharati Shipyard Ltd, Maharashtra (India), from the 1970s to 2010: Employer, employee, and production perspectives[-]S. M. Fahimuddin Pasha[-][-]22. Shipbuilding and shipbuilders in Thailand [-]Nicola Mocci[-][-]23. The lower labour market and the development of the post-war Japanese shipbuilding industry [-]Takeshi Haraguchi and Kazuya Sakurada[-][-]24. The evolution of labour relations in the South Korean shipbuilding industry: A case study of Hanjin Heavy Industries, 1950-2014[-]Wonchul Shin[-][-]25. China, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and Vietnam[-]Hugh Murphy[-][-]26. Some final observations[-] Hugh Murphy and Marcel van der Linden[-][-]Appendix 1: The effects of the oil price shocks on shipbuilding in the 1970s[-]Hugh Murphy and Stig Tenold[-][-]Appendix 2: Shipbuilding in 2013: An analysis of shipbuilding statistics[-]Victoria Culkin[-][-]Glossary of shipping and shipbuilding terms[-][-]List of Tables, Graphs, and Figures[-][-]Collective bibliography[-][-]Notes on contributors[-][-]Index[-]