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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 organized world community. Fink explores both how political and economic ends are reflected in maritime labor regulations and how agents of reform — including governments, trade unions, and global standard-setting authorities — grappled 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.
Editions of Sweatshops at Sea
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780807834503
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781469613697
- EBook
- ISBN 9780807877807
- EBook
- ISBN 9781469603322
- EBook
- ISBN 9798890884527
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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 organized world community. Fink explores both how political and economic ends are reflected in maritime labor regulations and how agents of reform — including governments, trade unions, and global standard-setting authorities — grappled 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Sweatshops at Sea about?
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 organized world community. Fink explores both how political and economic ends are reflected in maritime labor regulations and how agents of reform — including governments, trade unions, and global standard-setting authorities — grappled 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.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Sweatshops at Sea?
History and Archaeology > History > History of the Americas
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How long is Sweatshops at Sea and how many pages does it have?
Sweatshops at Sea has 288 page(s)
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Sweatshops at Sea?
Leon Fink
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Sweatshops at Sea is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780807834503) and paperback(ISBN 9781469613697) and ebook(ISBN 9780807877807) and ebook(ISBN 9781469603322) and ebook(ISBN 9798890884527)
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