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Title	A licence for survival : exploring structure, agency and power within Newfoundland and Labrador's shellfish processing industry
Author	Maddigan, Darryl, 1978-
Description	Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2009. Sociology
Date	2009
Pagination	viii, 151 leaves : col. ill., maps
Subject	Fishery management--Newfoundland and Labrador; Fishery processing industries--Licenses--Newfoundland and Labrador; Shellfish trade--Newfoundland and Labrador
Degree	M.A.
Degree Grantor	Memorial University of Newfoundland. Dept. of Sociology
Discipline	Sociology
Language	Eng
Spatial Coverage	Canada--Newfoundland and Labrador
Notes	Includes bibliographical references (leaves 144-148)
Abstract	Following the 1992 cod moratorium, many fishing dependent communities on Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula were forced to switch prey species in an attempt to achieve some measure of economic and social recovery. Many turned to harvesting shellfish, however, the shellfish industry provided fewer employment opportunities than the ground fishery, and subsequently, there was an increased demand for licences to process the newly targeted species. -- This thesis utilizes a case study to examine the process through which crab licences are allocated in Newfoundland and Labrador. More specifically, I conduct a sociological inquiry into how the licencing system operates by exploring the complex interplay between structure, agency, and power within the relationships of the system's three major players; communities, processing firms, and the provincial government. -- Utilizing an approach to structure, agency, and power similar to that of Anthony Giddens, Peter Berger, and Michel Foucault, as well as studies into small scale fishery survival, I propose a power hierarchy among the major social actors with communities at the bottom and the provincial government at the top. Position in the hierarchy is determined by the constraining and enabling effects of the social structure as well as each group's ability to access the social and cultural resources inherent to membership in their particular group. Additionally, I assert that the inability of communities to improve upon their position in the hierarchy is due in part to the persistence of clientelistic tendencies within the fishing industry.
Type	Text
Format	Image/jpeg; Application/pdf
Source	Paper copy kept in the Centre for Newfoundland Studies, Memorial University Libraries
Local Identifier	a3289176
Rights	The author retains copyright ownership and moral rights in this thesis. Neither the thesis nor substantial extracts from it may be printed or otherwise reproduced without the author's permission.
Collection	Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Scanning Status	Completed
PDF File	(19.15 MB) -- http://collections.mun.ca/PDFs/theses/Maddigan_Darryl.pdf
CONTENTdm file name	107978.cpd