By Pengfei Zhang
This booklet significantly investigates the stipulations of seafarers’ rights in China in laws and in perform, focusing specifically at the restructuring technique following the 2006 Maritime Labour conference. hence, it poses key study inquiries to significant chinese language stakeholders to gauge their responses to the conference, to figure out no matter if the safety of chinese language seafarers has really more advantageous because the introduction of the conference, and additional, to spot the continued demanding situations for destiny development. The conference will input into strength in China in November 2016, bringing with it major changes.
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With the development of legislation, technology and dramatic innovations in the maritime industry, the definition and understanding of seafarers and seafarers’ rights continue to change. The necessity of new research on the subject therefore becomes apparent. In order to identify the gaps in the current research and to utilise the experience and knowledge created by others, a systematic literature review is necessary before any new study is carried out. Many words have been used to refer to a person who works aboard water-borne vessels, such as seaman, seafarer, sailor, boatman, mariner, and crew.
It tended to be the last choice made under compelling circumstances, just as an old Chinese saying goes, ‘good families will not marry their daughters to seafarers (you nu bu jia cheng chuan lang)’. Seafarers were mainly recruited from amongst bankrupt fishermen, craftsmen or peasants from coastal districts in the country’s South East, in particular from Zhejiang, Fujian and Canton regions (Wang 2005, p. 188; MOT 1982). In the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911), the implementation of ‘forbidding the seas’ policy, introduced in the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644), had kept back sea transport with little development.
At this stage, the researcher needs to identify the potential data sources and compare different methods to be employed. After that, at the fourth stage the fieldwork begins, and raw data are collected from various sources. The next stage is for data cleansing, refinement and analysis, during which the data are transformed into presentable and manageable form by way of data analysis techniques. Salient features of the data can be graphically illustrated with methods such as bar charts, pie charts, line graphs and histograms (Morenikeji 2006).