Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present

Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 12
PART I. MASTERED AND COMMANDED......Page 18
1. The Nation’s Property: Nineteenth-Century Sailors and the Political Economy of the Atlantic World......Page 20
2. Liberty before the Mast: Defining Free Labor in Law and Literature......Page 46
PART II. STRATEGIES OF REFORM......Page 76
3. Wave of Reform: The Sailor’s Friend and the Drift toward a Welfare State......Page 78
4. The Nationalist Solution: The La Follette Act of 1915 and the Janus Face of Progressive Reform......Page 104
5. Workers of the Sea, Unite?: The Internationalist Legacy of the Pre–World War I Years......Page 128
PART III. A WORLD FIT FOR SEAFARERS?......Page 154
6. A Sea of Difference: The International Labor Organization and the Search for Common Standards, 1919–1946......Page 156
7. Cooperation and Cash: Labor’s Opportunity in a Post-Deregulatory Era......Page 182
Notes......Page 214
Works Cited......Page 252
Acknowledgments......Page 270
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