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As the face of the cruise line, every cruise ship employee is the first point of contact for a cruise company’s guests. The work is tedious, especially because they always have to wear a smile to keep guests happy. During their eight months at sea, they repeatedly perform the same jobs, week after week on sailing after sailing, on 11-hour shifts for seven days a week. The labourers are hired on contracts that are typically eight months long, with four months back at home. The work is so hard that most native-born populations in the West would not even consider applying for such jobs. Cooks, room attendants, waiters, bartenders, the people who keep the ship clean, security personnel, even technical staff such as mechanics and electricians, are all drawn from countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, and Thailand. Practically, every job on a modern cruise ship is performed by immigrants. The construction of new homes, fixing roofs, maintaining lawns and gardens, laying brick, roadwork, and many such jobs that are essential to a modern economy are extremely dependent upon immigrant labour.Ī little-known industry that is completely reliant on immigrant labour is the worldwide cruise shipping sector. This is true of menial businesses such as animal farming for the production of meat and leather, vegetable and fruit picking, and the maintenance of hotel rooms. While the world’s nationalist leaders repeatedly talk about immigrant labour in a bad light, large corporations prove, day in and day out, that their businesses would collapse without the lift that immigrant labour brings.