The Transformation of Maritime Professions Old and New Jobs in European Shipping Industries, 1850–2000
This book deals with the economic impact of technological changes and the rise of passenger shipping on social relations on board and ashore in European shipping industries between c.1850 and 2000. The changes in motive power, communication techniques and positioning technologies and the rise of pas...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Part I: Changes in maritime labour: Institutional, technological and spatial contexts
- Chapter 2: The human element in power-driven merchant ship propulsion since 1850: The British case
- Chapter 3: Technological change, institutions, and maritime labour: International reforms and their reception in Sweden and Finland, c.1850-1939
- Chapter 4: Changes in maritime labour in Greece during the transition from sail to steam, c. 1850-1917
- Chapter 5: Seamen in the city. Origins, residence and standard of living of Le Havre seamen from c. 1800 to the First Wold War
- Chapter 6: Reading shipboard space: the plans of ships serving the Netherlands East Indies, c.1850-1914
- Part II: Case studies of old maritime jobs
- Chapter 7: Reconfiguring authority at sea: Steamships and their captains in a Danish context, c.1850-1950
- Chapter 8: Feeding the fleet: Cooks in the Belgian merchant marine, c.1850-1930
- Part III: Case studies of new maritime jobs
- Chapter 9: Elbowing their way: Engineers in the Spanish merchant marine, c.1850-1950
- Chapter 10: From the captain’s tiger to the chief steward. Career patterns of the catering personnel on British passenger liners, 1860–1938
- Chapter 11: Surfing the waves. The rise and decline of radio operators in the Dutch mercantile marine in the twentieth century
- Chapter 12: Conclusion