Fink, Leon,  1948- <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-257) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780807834503 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807834505 (cloth : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010037736 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Merchant mariners--History.<br/>Merchant marine--History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD8039.S4  / F56 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>387.5