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Turgo, N. (2021) 'Manning the waves: Masculinity shift amongst Filipino seafarers in the age of precarity', Gender Work Organ., 1–17, DOI: 10.1111/gwao.12710.
Baum-Talmor, P. and Gekara, V. (2015) 'Flexibility, security and the need for training', Seaways, The International Journal of the Nautical Institute, January, p 16.
Sampson, H. (2013) 'Globalisation, Labour Market Transformation and Migrant Marginalisation: the Example of the Transmigrant Seafarers in Germany', Journal of International Migration and Integration, 14(4): 751-765, DOI 10.1007/s12134-012-0266-0.
Leong, P. (2012) 'Understanding the Seafarer Global Labour Market in the Context of a Seafarer 'Shortage', PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
Winchester, N. and Bailey, N. (2012) ‘Making sense of ‘global’ social justice: Claims for justice in the global labour market for seafarers’, Sociological Research Online, 17(4): 10-22.
Turgo, N. (2012) '"Bugabug ang dagat (Rough seas)": Experiencing Foucault's heterotopia in fish trading houses', Social Science Diliman, 8(1): 31-62.
Galam, R. (2011) 'Navigating Lives: The Spatiotemporality of the Gender Identity, Agency and Subjectivity of Filipino Seamen's Wives', PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
Calderón-Veiga, M. (2011) ‘Seafarers in Ecuador, A Labour Market Study’, Cardiff: SIRC, September, ISBN 1-900174-40-5.
Zhao, Z. (2011) 'The Human Resource Strategies of Chinese State Crewing Agencies with Special Reference to Labour Export and the Experience of Chinese Seafarers', PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
Gould, E. (2010) 'Towards a Total Occupation: A Study of UK Merchant Navy Officer Cadetship', PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
Ellis, N. and Sampson, H. (2008) 'The Global Labour Market for Seafarers: Working Aboard Merchant Cargo Ships 2003', Cardiff: SIRC, June, ISBN: 1-900174-35-9.
Gekara, V. (2008) 'Globalisation, state strategies and labour in the shipping industry: the UK response to declining shipping skills', PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
Gekara, V. (2008) 'Are there jobs for all in the shipping industry?', The Sea, Issue 195, Sep/Oct, p 4.
Wu, B., Shen, G. and Li, L. (2007) The Transformation of the Chinese Labour Market for Seafarers, Cardiff: SIRC, ISBN: 1-900174-33-2.
Gekara, V. (2007) 'Increasing shipping skills in the UK: 'Bursting' the industry myth of diminishing interest', SIRC Symposium, Cardiff University, July, ISBN 1-900174-31-6.
Tang, L. (2007) 'The 'presence' of absent seafarers: Predicaments of Chinese seafarer-partners', SIRC Symposium, Cardiff University, July, ISBN 1-900174-31-6.
Winchester, N., Sampson, H. and Shelly, T. (2006) An Analysis of Crewing Levels: Findings from the SIRC Global Labour Market Study, Cardiff: SIRC, ISBN: 1-900174-27-8.
Wu, B. and Morris, J. (2006) 'A life on the ocean wave: the ‘post socialist' careers of Chinese, Russian and Eastern European seafarers', International Journal of Human Resource Management, 17(1): 25-48. DOI: 10.1080/09585190500366201.
Wu, B. Lai, K.H. and Cheng, T.C. (2006) 'Emergence of ‘new professionalism’ amongst Chinese seafarers: empirical evidences and policy implications', Maritime Policy and Management, 33(1): 35-48. DOI: 10.1080/03088830500513246
Kahveci, E. and Nichols, T. (2006) ‘The Other Car Workers’, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 211 pp, ISBN 1-4039-4191-2.
Wu, B. (2005) ‘The World Cruise Industry: A Profile of the Global Labour Market’, Cardiff: SIRC, March, ISBN: 1-900174-25-1.
Wu, B. (2005) ‘Chinese seafarers in transition: trends and evidence’, SIRC Symposium, Cardiff University, July, ISBN 1-900174-26-X.
Wu, B. and Sampson, H. (2005) ‘Reconsidering the Cargo Sector’s Seafarer Labor Market: A 21st Century Profile of Global Seafarers’, Ocean Yearbook, 19: 357-380. DOI: 10.1163/22116001-90000275.
Wu, B. and Winchester N. (2005), ‘Crew Study of Seafarers: A Methodological Approach to the Global Labour Market for Seafarers’. Marine Policy, 29(4): 323-330. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2004.05.006.
Wu, B. and Veiga, J. (2004) ‘EU seafarer careers: Impact of EU enlargement on the seafaring labour market’, Seaways: the International Journal of Nautical Institute, July, pp 24-27, ISSN 0144-1019.
Wu, B. (2004) ‘"Transgration” of Chinese seafarers in economic transition: an institutional perspective on labour mobility’, School of Social Sciences Working Paper Series (64), August, ISBN 1904815308.
Wu, B. (2004) ‘Chinese seafarers in the global labour market: a focus on seafarers as labour export’, in R. Harding, A. Jarvis and A. Kennerley (eds) British Ships in China Seas: 1700 to the Present Day, Society for Nautical Research, Liverpool: National Museums, ISBN 190270025-2.
Wu, B. (2004) ‘Participation in the global labour market: experience and responses of Chinese seafarers’, Maritime Policy and Management’, 31(1): 69-72. DOI: 10.1080/0308883032000168992.
Amante, M.S.V. (2003) 'Philippine Global Seafarers: A Profile', Cardiff: SIRC.
Obando-Rojas, B. (2003) ‘Increasing your employment potential’, The Sea, Issue 163, May/Jun.
Obando-Rojas, B. (2003) ‘New Jobs for Seafarers in short supply’, The Sea, Issue 162, Mar/Apr.
Wu, B. (2003) ‘Accessing the global seafaring market’, WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs, 2(1):17-32. DOI: 10.1007/BF03195031.
Zhao, A. and Amante, M.S.V. (2003) ‘Chinese Seafarers and Filipino Seafarers: race to the top or race to the bottom?’, SIRC Symposium 2003, Cardiff University, September 19th, ISBN 1-900174-22-7.
Wu, B. (2003) ‘Chinese seafarers and the global labour market’, Seaways, October Issue, 23-24, ISSN 0144-1019.
Amante, M.S.V. (2003) ‘RP still largest supplier of seafarers in the world’. Philippine Daily Inquirer, Internet edition, 3 July.
Lane, A. D., Obando-Rojas, B., Wu, B. and Tasiran, A. (2002) ‘Crewing the International Merchant Fleet’, Lloyd's Register - Fairplay Ltd.