Sweatshops at sea : merchant seamen in the world's first globalized industry, from 1812 to the present / Leon Fink.

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Main Author: Fink, Leon, 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina, ©2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.