Sweatshops at sea : merchant seamen in the world's first globalized industry, from 1812 to the present /
Fink, Leon, 1948-
Sweatshops at sea : merchant seamen in the world's first globalized industry, from 1812 to the present / Leon Fink. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina, c2011. - 278 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-257) and index.
The nation's property: nineteenth-century sailors and the political economy of the Atlantic world -- Liberty before the mast : defining free labor in law and literature -- Wave of reform : the sailor's friend and the drift toward a welfare state -- The nationalist solution : the La Follette act of 1915 and the Janus Face of progressive reform -- Workers of the sea, unite? : the internationalist legacy of the pre-world war I years -- A sea of difference: the international labor organization and the search for common standards, 1919-1946 -- Cooperation and cash : labor's opportunity in a post-deregulatory era.
9780807834503 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807834505 (cloth : alk. paper)
2010037736
Merchant mariners--History.
Merchant marine--History.
HD8039.S4 / F56 2011
387.5
Sweatshops at sea : merchant seamen in the world's first globalized industry, from 1812 to the present / Leon Fink. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina, c2011. - 278 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-257) and index.
The nation's property: nineteenth-century sailors and the political economy of the Atlantic world -- Liberty before the mast : defining free labor in law and literature -- Wave of reform : the sailor's friend and the drift toward a welfare state -- The nationalist solution : the La Follette act of 1915 and the Janus Face of progressive reform -- Workers of the sea, unite? : the internationalist legacy of the pre-world war I years -- A sea of difference: the international labor organization and the search for common standards, 1919-1946 -- Cooperation and cash : labor's opportunity in a post-deregulatory era.
9780807834503 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807834505 (cloth : alk. paper)
2010037736
Merchant mariners--History.
Merchant marine--History.
HD8039.S4 / F56 2011
387.5