Containing mobilities

This article uses ethnography from onboard container ships to show how seafarers as a workforce at the center of global capital circulation are increasingly confined inside their mobile worksites. Drawing on theories transformation time and space internal logic globalization capitalism, argues that increased mobility goods, facilitated by developments in maritime logistics, has decreased charge moving these goods across world. The proposes “containing mobilities” term for thinking through particular contradictions inequalities shape everyday life workers heart system transport constitutes supply chain.