The market for seamen in the age of sail
By: edited by Lewis R. Fischer.
Contributors: Fischer, Lewis R.; International Maritime Economic History Association.
Series: Research in maritime history,; no. 7
Publisher: International Maritime Economic History Association
Published: 1994
Place of publication: St. John's, Nfld
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: Merchant mariners -- Supply and demand -- History.; Merchant marine -- History.; Marins (Marine marchande) -- Offre et demande -- Histoire.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Maritime labour in early modern Spain / Carla Rahn Phillips; title: Recruitment and promotion : the merchant fleet of Salem, Massachusetts, 1670-1765 / Vince Walsh; title: Mariners and markets in the age of sail : the case of the Netherlands / Paul C. van Royen; title: Pirates and markets / David J. Starkey; title: 'Advance notes' and the recruitment of maritime labour in Britain in the nineteenth century / David M. Williams; title: Finnish and international maritime labour in the age of sail : was there a market? / Yrjö Kaukiainen; title: The efficiency of maritime labour markets in the age of sail : the post-1850 Norwegian experience / Lewis R. Fischer; title: The Danish maritime labour market, 1880-1900 / Morten Hahn-Pederden and Poul Holm.