Sweatshops at Sea
Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present
by Leon Fink
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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 organized world community. Fink explores both how political and economic ends are reflected in maritime labor regulations and how agents of reformâincluding governments, trade unions, and global standard-setting authoritiesâgrappled with the problems of applying land-based, national principles and regulations of labor discipline and management to the sea-going labor force. With the rise of powerful nation-states in a global marketplace in the nineteenth century, recruitment and regulation of a mercantile labor force emerged as a high priority and as a vexing problem for Western powers. The history of exploitation, reform, and the evolving international governance of sea labor offers a compelling precedent in an age of more universal globalization of production and services.
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- ISBN: 9781469603322
- File size: 3409 KB
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