| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 185 pages) : color illustrations |
| Series |
Global studies in social and cultural maritime history |
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Global studies in social and cultural maritime history
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| Contents |
Introduction: Sailors Ashore -- Chapter 1. Sailors⁰́₉ Wardship, Maritime Ministry, and the Contest for New York City⁰́₉s Sailortown, 1843-1915 -- Chapter 2. Merchant Seamen and the Parameters of Involuntary Servitude: The Arago Deserters and the United States Supreme Court, 1895-1897 -- Chapter 3. ⁰́₋Pandemonium on the Quay⁰́₊: The Titanic Disaster, the Olympic Mutiny, and the 1912 Transport Workers⁰́₉ Federation Strike -- Chapter 4. The 1915 Seamen⁰́₉s Act: Maritime Labor and Progressive Era Maritime Reform -- Chapter 5. Deserters, Stowaways, and Mala Fide Sailors: Merchant Seamen and the Shaping of U.S. Immigration Policy, 1917-1936 -- Chapter 6. The ⁰́₋Million-Dollar Home for Sailors,⁰́₊ Industrial Maritime Unionism, and Sailors⁰́₉ Agency in New York City⁰́₉s Sailortown, 1930-1932 -- Chapter 7. Conclusion: Currents, Past and Future |
| Summary |
This book argues first, that the forces of industrialization that transformed ship technology simultaneously transformed the working-class lives of merchant seamen, intensifying class conflict and producing collective networks of subversion and resistance within the urban borderland spaces of sailortowns in which sailors fought to maintain control over their mobility, agency, and rights. Second, that given their social, cultural, economic, geographic, and legal marginalization, merchant seamen have occupied essential roles at the parameters of US urban, legal, labor, immigration, and wartime history. Third, that the constellation of these histories, embedded in the encounters and negotiations that merchant seamen provoked along the nation⁰́₉s coastlines and sailortowns, collectively represents a unique and essential perspective on the history of US citizenship. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 4, 2024) |
| Subject |
Merchant mariners -- United States -- History
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Merchant mariners -- United States -- Social conditions
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Port cities -- United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783031456183 |
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3031456181 |
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