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Information

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Year

2008

ISBN

9789048521111

Edition

Topic

Business

Subtopic

Business General

Index

Business

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