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The Adaptation of Rural Residents to the Offshore Oil and Gas (Exploration Phase) Labour Force, Newfoundland and Labrador, 1981

Publication: Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
January 1983

Abstract

In response to interest and concerns about the effect which oil industry development would have in the province of Newfoundland, a number of studies were initiated, including attempts to assess the impacts on rural residents. An analysis of the offshore labour force indicated that Newfoundland residents represented 60% of the offshore force; however, their participation was predominantly in the junior drilling, junior marine and junior service positions. The provincial workers differed from the non-resident workers on a number of factors. Also of interest, the 35% of the Newfoundland workers interviewed had come from water transport occupations and were attracted by the perceived advantages of work in the oil industry, while the 34% who had come from the fishing industry, cited financial insecurity and poor working conditions of the fishery as their reasons for changing jobs.

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Par suite de l'intérêt et des préoccupations manifestés à l'égard des effets qu'exercerait l'expansion de l'industrie pétrolière dans la province de Terre-Neuve, un certain nombre d'études ont été enterprises, notamment des études visant à évaluer les répercussions de cette expansion sur la population rurale. Une autre analyse a montré que les Terre-Neuviens constituaient 60 p. cent de la main-d'ocuvre offshore, mais qu'ils occupaient surtout des postes subalterns dans les équipes de forage, la marine et les services. Les travailleurs provinciaux différaient des non-Terre-Neuviens à plusieurs égards. Il était également intéressant de constater que 35 p. cent des travailleurs terre-neuvienes interrogés oeuvraient auparavant dans le transport maritime et étaient attirés par les avantages que présentait, selon eux, un emploi dans l'industrie pétrolière, alors que 34 p. cent, qui travaillaient autrefois dans l'industrie de la pêche, citaient parmi les raisons qui les avaient incités à changer de travail l'insécurité financière et les mauvaises conditions de travail dans le secteur des pêcheries.

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cover image Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Volume 2Number S1January 1983
Pages: 133 - 139

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Version of record online: 28 April 2009

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Richard Fuchs
Government of Newfoundland and Labrador

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