Sweatshops at sea : merchant seamen in the world's first globalized industry, from 1812 to the present / / Leon Fink
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| Autore: |
Fink Leon <1948->
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| Titolo: |
Sweatshops at sea : merchant seamen in the world's first globalized industry, from 1812 to the present / / Leon Fink
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina, 2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 387.5 |
| Soggetto topico: | Merchant mariners - History |
| Merchant marine - History | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | pt. 1. Mastered and commanded -- pt. 2. Strategies of reform -- pt. 3. A world fit for seafarers?. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | As the main artery of international commerce, merchant shipping was the world's first globalized industry, often serving as a vanguard for issues touching on labor recruiting, the employment relationship, and regulatory enforcement that crossed national borders. In Sweatshops at Sea, historian Leon Fink examines the evolution of laws and labor relations governing ordinary seamen over the past two centuries. The merchant marine offers an ideal setting for examining the changing regulatory regimes applied to workers by the United States, Great Britain, and, ultimately, an organize |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Sweatshops at sea |
| ISBN: | 979-88-908845-2-7 |
| 1-4696-0332-2 | |
| 0-8078-7780-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910960771703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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