Seafaring Labour
Seafaring Labour
ISBN: 9780773515239
出版社: McGill Queens Univ Pr
出版年: 1996-5
页数: 352
定价: $ 37.23
装帧: Pap
内容简介
Sager argues that sailors were not misfits or outcasts but were divorced from society only by virtue of their occupation. The wooden ships were small communities at sea, fragments of normal society where workers lived, struggled, and often died. With the coming of the age of steam, the sailor became part of a new division of labour and a new social hierarchy at sea. Sager shows that the sailor was as integral to the transition to industrial capitalism as any land worker.