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Record Nr.

UNINA9910799228003321

Autore

Thayer Johnathan

Titolo

Citizenship, Subversion, and Surveillance in U.S. Ports : Sailors Ashore / / by Johnathan Thayer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

9783031456183

3031456181

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 pages)

Collana

Global Studies in Social and Cultural Maritime History

Disciplina

301.55

Soggetti

United States - History

Cities and towns - History

Labor

History

US History

Urban History

Labor History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Sailors Ashore -- Chapter 1. Sailors’ Wardship, Maritime Ministry, and the Contest for New York City’s 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. “Pandemonium on the Quay”: The Titanic Disaster, the Olympic Mutiny, and the 1912 Transport Workers’ Federation Strike -- Chapter 4. The 1915 Seamen’s 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 “Million-Dollar Home for Sailors,” Industrial Maritime Unionism, and Sailors’ Agency in New York City’s Sailortown, 1930-1932 -- Chapter 7. Conclusion: Currents, Past and Future.

Sommario/riassunto

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 nation’s coastlines and sailortowns, collectively represents a unique and essential perspective on the history of US citizenship. .