Sweatshops at sea : merchant seamen in the world's first globalized industry, from 1812 to the present / Leon Fink.
Publication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina, c2011.Description: 278 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780807834503 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0807834505 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 387.5 22
- HD8039.S4 F56 2011
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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.
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