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Representing Danger at a Mediterranean Drydocks

The creeks of the harbour of Malta shelter Malta Drydocks (henceforth ‘the Dockyard’), an industry that employs around 3500 workers. Over a period of several months in 1997, I conducted fieldwork among Dockyard workers. This article is an empirical inquiry into their perceptions of occupational danger, and from there into the way in which the ‘dangerous’ nature of shipyard work affects the politics surrounding employment and the survival of the Dockyard as an industry.