Front matter -- Table of contents -- Introduction / Gorski, Richard -- Six cross-sections of the Dutch maritime labour market: A preliminary reconstruction and its implications (1610-1850) / Lottum, Jelle van / Lucassen, Jan -- On maritime labour and maritime labour markets in Germany, 1700-1900 / Gerstenberger, Heide -- Swedish naval personnel in the merchant marine and in foreign naval service in the eighteenth century / Nováky, György -- Quantifying British seafarers, 1789-1828 / Starkey, David J. -- ,But for the loves of the fishes': Maritime labour and ecological culture in nineteenth-century Newfoundland / Cadigan, Sean T. -- The Shipping Federation and the free labour movement: A comparative study of waterfront and maritime industrial relations, c.1889-1891 / Kenefick, William -- Health and safety aboard British merchant ships: The case of first aid instruction, 1881-1908 / Gorski, Richard -- British merchant marine engineer licensing, 1865-1925 / Kennerley, Alston -- Transatlantic fishers: New England and British trawlermen, 1960-1972 / Davis, Colin J. -- Masters and chiefs: Enabling globalization, 1975-1995 / Lane, Tony -- About the contributors |