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1 online resource (260 pages) |
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Maritime Labour; Table of contents; Introduction; Six cross-sections of the Dutch maritime labour market: A preliminary reconstruction and its implications(1610-1850); On maritime labour and maritime labour markets in Germany, 1700-1900; Swedish naval personnel in the merchant marine and in foreign naval service in the eighteenth century; Quantifying British seafarers, 1789-1828; 'But for the loves of the fishes': Maritime labour and ecological culture in nineteenth-century Newfoundland |
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The Shipping Federation and the free labour movement: A comparative study of waterfront and maritime industrial relations, c.1889-1891Health and safety aboard British merchant ships: The case of first aid instruction, 1881-1908; British merchant marine engineer licensing, 1865-1925; Transatlantic fishers: New England and British trawlermen, 1960-1972; Masters and chiefs: Enabling globalization, 1975-1995; About the contributors |
| Summary |
This is a collection of soundings into various aspects of the history of maritime labor from the close of the Middle Ages to the present. The spatial emphasis of the essays is north European and Atlantic since they deal with the countries around the North Sea and Baltic with some coverage of North America. Indeed, from time to time the authors leave the sea behind in order to examine broader issues such as labor markets, the regulation and institutions of seafaring, and industrial relations on the waterfront. But at all points there is a common theme of sea-related labor, and a common objectiv |
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Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Merchant mariners -- Supply and demand -- Europe -- History
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Merchant mariners -- Supply and demand -- North America -- History
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Sailors -- Supply and demand -- Europe -- History
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Sailors -- Supply and demand -- North America -- History
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Merchant marine -- Europe -- History
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Merchant marine -- North America -- History
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TRANSPORTATION -- Ships & Shipbuilding -- Pictorial.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- General.
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Merchant mariners -- Supply and demand
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Merchant marine
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Europe
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North America
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Gorski, Richard, 1971-
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| ISBN |
9789048521111 |
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9048521114 |
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1283259559 |
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9781283259552 |
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9786613259554 |
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6613259551 |
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