Maritime men of the Asia-Pacific : true-blue internationals navigating labour rights 1906-2006 / Diane Kirkby with Lee-Ann Monk and Dmytro Ostapenko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kirkby, Diane Elizabeth, author.

Monk, Lee-Ann, author.

Ostapenko, Dmytro, author.

Series:

Studies in labour history.

Liverpool scholarship online.

Studies in labour history

Liverpool scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Merchant mariners--Labor unions--Oceania--History.

Merchant mariners.

Merchant mariners--Legal status, laws, etc.

Merchant mariners--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 332 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Maritime workers occupy a central place in global labour history. This compelling account from Australia shows seafaring and waterside unions engaged in a shared history of activism for legally regulated wages and safe liveable conditions for all who go to sea. 'Maritime Men of the Asia-Pacific' provides a corrective to studies which overlook this region's significance as a provider of the world's maritime labour force and where unions have a rich history of reaching across their differences to forge connections in solidarity.

Contents:

Cover Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements A Note on Sources, Spelling and Terminology Abbreviations 1 'By the Nature of Their Calling': Themes of Region, Race and Militancy 2 'Navigation as It Affects the Empire': Australasian Labour Standards and British Merchant Shipping 3 'The Commonwealth and the Lascars': Protecting Maritime Workers in a 'White Australia,' 1901 to 1914 4 'To Break Down the Barriers Which Separate Races and Countries': Socialists, Maritime Unionists and Organising Internationally before 1920 5 'Our Duty Is to Foster a Spirit of Internationality': Maritime Unions and International Labour Organising in the Aftermath of War 6 '[T]o Ensure ... Fair Conditions of Labor': Navigating Class, Nation and Empire in the 1920s 7 'Seamen of the Orient': Globalising the ITF and Embracing Asia, c.1920s to the 1930s 8 'Lascar Seamen Stand up for Rights': Asserting Independence, c.1930s to 1949 9 'Standards for All Seamen, Indian, Chinese and European': Internationalism in the Cold War Asia-Pacific, 1945 to c.1970 10 'Bogeymen of the Pacific': Trans-Pacific Dockworker Organising, 1940s to the 1960s 11 'Giving Us a Voice in World Affairs': Internationalising Leadership and Activism, 1960 to 1980 12 'Protect[ing] Workers against Shoddy Foreign Companies': International Labourers and National Unionists, 1960s to 2000 13 Conclusion Select Bibliography Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2022.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 8, 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-80207-217-9

OCLC:

1417148327