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Sweatshops at sea : merchant seamen in the world's first globalized industry, from 1812 to the present / Leon Fink.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fink, Leon, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Merchant mariners--History.
- Merchant mariners.
- Merchant marine--History.
- Merchant marine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- As the main artery of international commerce, merchant shipping was the world's first globalized industry, often serving as a vanguard for issues touching on labor recruiting, the employment relationship, and regulatory enforcement that crossed national borders. In Sweatshops at Sea, historian Leon Fink examines the evolution of laws and labor relations governing ordinary seamen over the past two centuries. The merchant marine offers an ideal setting for examining the changing regulatory regimes applied to workers by the United States, Great Britain, and, ultimately, an organize
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Mastered and commanded
- pt. 2. Strategies of reform
- pt. 3. A world fit for seafarers?.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908845-2-7
- 1-4696-0332-2
- 0-8078-7780-8
- OCLC:
- 707925220
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