Sweatshops at sea
Subtitle: merchant seamen in the world's first globalized industry, from 1812 to the present
By: Leon Fink
Publisher: University of North Carolina
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780807834503
Subjects: Merchant marine; Merchant mariners; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-257) and index.
Table of contents: title: The nation's property: nineteenth-century sailors and the political economy of the Atlantic world; title: Liberty before the mast : defining free labor in law and literature; title: Wave of reform : the sailor's friend and the drift toward a welfare state; title: The nationalist solution : the La Follette act of 1915 and the Janus Face of progressive reform; title: Workers of the sea, unite? : the internationalist legacy of the pre-world war I years; title: A sea of difference: the international labor organization and the search for common standards, 1919-1946; title: Cooperation and cash : labor's opportunity in a post-deregulatory era.