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Sweatshops at sea : merchant seamen in the world's first globalized industry, from 1812 to the present /
Fink explores both how political and economic ends are reflected in maritime labor regulations and how agents of reform--including governments, trade unions, and global standard-setting authorities--grappled with the problems of applying land-based, national principles and regulations of labor disci...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction; PART I. MASTERED AND COMMANDED; 1. The Nation's Property: Nineteenth-Century Sailors and the Political Economy of the Atlantic World; 2. Liberty before the Mast: Defining Free Labor in Law and Literature; PART II. STRATEGIES OF REFORM; 3. Wave of Reform: The Sailor's Friend and the Drift toward a Welfare State; 4. The Nationalist Solution: The La Follette Act of 1915 and the Janus Face of Progressive Reform; 5. Workers of the Sea, Unite?: The Internationalist Legacy of the Pre-World War I Years; PART III. A WORLD FIT FOR SEAFARERS?