Liam Campling & Alejandro Colás: Maritime Logistics and Labour Regimes as Infrastructures of Accumulation. [Abstract]

This paper seeks to connect and advance arguments made in our 2021 book Capitalism and the Sea (Verso) by addressing the problematic of spatial refigurations in economic sociology through the prism of maritime shipping and its accompanying labour regimes. Conceived of as terraqueous infrastructures of accumulation in motion, we first develop an account of maritime logistics as an expression of infrastructure that is generative of capitalist planning and articulates uneven development, (post)colonial and imperial relations of domination and subordination, and dynamics of concentration and centralisation in highly differentiated shipping industries. We then, secondly, set in relation this historical geography of maritime logistics to explore the labour regimes that make such movement possible. We underline the distinctiveness of maritime labour regimes to highlight structural obstacles to solidarity within and across spaces and places.

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