Gulf Coast Communities and the Fabrication and Shipbuilding Industry: A Comparative Community Study Volume II: Community Profiles.

摘要

The purpose of this volume is to provide multiple lenses through which to view the shipbuilding and fabrication industry along the Gulf of Mexico, and to establish some basic categories that will be used in the study area profiles in this volume and in the analysis provided in Volume III of this report. This volume is descriptive in nature and designed to give an overview of the shipbuilding and fabrication industry as experienced by the Gulf Coast communities within which it operates. The chapter begins with a discussion of criteria for defining the study areas and then presents classification schemes based on key elements of the industry, focusing first on the companies and second on the people who make it up, in order to illustrate the industry’s diversity. The chapter concludes with a description of the methodology used to gather the data for the profiles.