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

Fink, Leon, 1948-
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina, ©2011.
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Notes:

  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-257) and index.
  • 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.
  • Sweatshops at Sea is a masterful history that illuminates the issues of citizenship in a world of porous borders for a workforce that has always been both multinational and multiracial. Leon Fink’s thoroughly researched, fascinating book provides readers with a fresh and invigorating perspective on globalization. –Nelson Lichtenstein, director, Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy, University of California, Santa Barbara. –Book Jacket.

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