This article examines how kinship forms a contested element of labour under capitalist distribution. The focus of the article is on a thriving Spanish container port where the dockworker collective has been steadily growing since the multinational companies first arrived in the 1970s. In the wake of containerization – a standardized system of freight transport based on the intermodal shipping container – dock work has been revalued and become attractive in an area otherwise characterized by high unemployment rates and below-average salaries. Drawing on ethnographic research, the article analyses how unionized dockworkers are met with stigmatization from the general public and criticized for their intergenerational access to ‘container capital’. The article contributes to current anthropological debates around the role of labour under global capitalism by tracing the links between kinship and labour in the making of a global port.

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滨水血缘：全球港口的物流劳动力

本文考察了在资本主义分配条件下，亲属关系如何形成一种有争议的劳动力要素。文章的重点是一个蓬勃发展的西班牙集装箱港口，自 1970 年代跨国公司首次抵达这里以来，码头工人集体一直在稳步增长。在集装箱化之后——一种基于多式联运集装箱的标准化货运系统——码头工作被重新评估，并在一个以高失业率和低于平均工资为特征的地区变得有吸引力。本文利用人种学研究，分析了加入工会的码头工人如何受到公众的污名化，并因其代际获取“集装箱资本”的渠道而受到批评。