Maritime Labour : : Contributions to the History of Work at Sea, 1500-2000 / / ed. by Richard Gorski, W. Koetsenruijter, J. de Jong, Hetty Berg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
• HerausgeberIn: Berg, Hetty,; Gorski, Richard,; Koetsenruijter, W.,; de Jong, J.,
• MitwirkendeR: Cadigan, Sean T.,; Davis, Colin J.,; Gerstenberger, Heide,; Gorski, Richard,; Kenefick, William,; Kennerley, Alston,; Lane, Tony,; Lottum, Jelle van,; Lucassen, Jan,; Nováky, György,; Starkey, David J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2008]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

This is a collection of soundings into various aspects of the history of maritime labor from the close of the Middle Ages to the present. The spatial emphasis of the essays is north European and Atlantic since they deal with the countries around the North Sea and Baltic with some coverage of North America. The phrase work at sea naturally makes one think of merchant seafaring and its ancillary trades but, again, several authors in this book deal with navies and naval personnel as important constituents of the seagoing workforce. Indeed, from time to time the authors leave the sea behind in order to examine broader issues such as labor markets, the regulation and institutions of seafaring, and industrial relations on the waterfront. But at all points there is a common theme of sea-related labor, and a common objective of better understanding what have often been perceived as difficult and elusive groups of people. Marcus Rediker was surely correct in a recent essay to stress the challenge of producing more inclusive maritime historical research: We need to get back to basics, to careful empirical reconstructions of the lifeways of peoples long rendered silent in the writing of history.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Six cross-sections of the Dutch maritime labour market: A preliminary reconstruction and its implications (1610-1850) -- On maritime labour and maritime labour markets in Germany, 1700-1900 -- Swedish naval personnel in the merchant marine and in foreign naval service in the eighteenth century -- Quantifying British seafarers, 1789-1828 -- ‚But for the loves of the fishes‘: Maritime labour and ecological culture in nineteenth-century Newfoundland -- The Shipping Federation and the free labour movement: A comparative study of waterfront and maritime industrial relations, c.1889-1891 -- Health and safety aboard British merchant ships: The case of first aid instruction, 1881-1908 -- British merchant marine engineer licensing, 1865-1925 -- Transatlantic fishers: New England and British trawlermen, 1960-1972 -- Masters and chiefs: Enabling globalization, 1975-1995 -- About the contributors