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Sweatshops at sea: merchant seamen in the world's first globalized industry, from 1812 to the present

Leon Fink
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E-Book
Publication:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina
Copyright:
©2011
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"Leon Fink, one of the world's best labor historians, has gone to sea and returned with a powerful yarn about the seafaring workers who built the global economy. Vividly told the breathtaking in scope, Sweatshops at Sea will be remembered as one of the most important histories of our time." Marcus Rediker, author The Slave Ship: A Human History. --
"Sweatshops at Sea is a masterful history that illuminates the issues of citizenship in a world of porous borders for a workforce that has always been both multinational and multiracial. Leon Fink's thoroughly researched, fascinating book provides readers with a fresh and invigorating perspective on globalization."---Nelson Lichtenstein, director, Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy, University of California, Santa Barbara. --Book Jacket.
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I Mastered and Commanded
  • 1. Nation's Property
  • Nineteenth-Century Sailors and the Political Economy of the Atlantic World
  • 2. Liberty before the Mast
  • Defining Free Labor in Law and Literature
  • pt. II Strategies of Reform
  • 3. Wave of Reform
  • Sailor's Friend and the Drift toward a Welfare State
  • 4. Nationalist Solution
  • La Follette Act of 1915 and the Janus Face of Progressive Reform
  • 5. Workers of the Sea, Unite?
  • Internationalist Legacy of the Pre- World War I Years
  • pt. III World fit for Seafarers?
  • 6. Sea of Difference
  • International Labor Organization and the Search for Common Standards, 1919-1946
  • 7. Cooperation and Cash
  • Labors Opportunity in a Post-Deregulatory Era.
Author/Creator:
Fink, Leon, 1948-
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Main Work:
Sweatshops at sea: merchant seamen in the world's first globalized industry, from 1812 to the present [by Fink, L.]
Other Related Resources:
Print version: Sweatshops at sea [by Fink, L.] (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina, ©2011 — ISBN 9780807834503; LCCN 2010037736)
Subjects:
Merchant mariners — History
Merchant marine — History
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on: Print version record.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Call Numbers:
HD8039.S4 F56 2011
ISBNs:
9780807877807 (electronic bk.)
0807877808 (electronic bk.)
9781469603322 (electronic bk.)
1469603322 (electronic bk.)
9780807834503 [Invalid]
0807834505 [Invalid]
OCLC Numbers:
707925220
Other Control Numbers:
360670 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp11319848