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Auteur(s) : Fink, Leon (1948-....)
Titre(s) : Sweatshops at sea [Texte imprimé] : merchant seamen in the world's first globalized industry, from 1812 to the present / Leon Fink
Publication : Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina, c2011
Description matérielle : 278 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Comprend : The nation's property: nineteenth-century sailors and the political economy of the
Atlantic world ; Liberty before the mast : defining free labor in law and literature
; Wave of reform : the sailor's friend and the drift toward a welfare state ; The
nationalist solution : the La Follette Act of 1915 and the Janus Face of progressive
reform ; Workers of the sea, unite? : the internationalist legacy of the pre-World
War I years ; A sea of difference: the International Labor Organization and the search
for common standards, 1919-1946 ; Cooperation and cash : labor's opportunity in a
post-deregulatory era.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-257) and index
"Sweatshops at Sea is a masterful history that illuminates the issues of citizenship
in a world of porous borders for a workforce that has always been both multinational
and multiracial. Leon Fink's thoroughly researched, fascinating book provides readers
with a fresh and invigorating perspective on globalization."--Nelson Lichtenstein,
director, Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy, University of California,
Santa Barbara. --Book Jacket
Sujet(s) : Marine marchande -- 1800-....
Marins (marine marchande) -- 1800-....
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780807834503 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0807834505 (cloth) (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42549142t
Notice n° :
FRBNF42549142
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