TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sager,Eric W.
TI  - Seafaring labour: the merchant marine of Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914 
SN  - 9780773561823
AV  - HD8039.S4 O67 1989eb
U1  - 305/.93875/09715 19
PY  - 1989///
CY  - Kingston, Ont.
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
KW  - Merchant mariners
KW  - Maritime Provinces
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Newfoundland and Labrador
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Merchant marine
KW  - Marins (Marine marchande)
KW  - Provinces maritimes
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Marine marchande
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Minority Studies
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Canada
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Arbeitsbedingungen
KW  - gnd
KW  - Handelsflotte
KW  - Newfoundland
KW  - Insel
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents; Illustrations; Abbreviations; Illustrative Material; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 A Pre-Industrial Workplace; 2 Working the Small Craft; 3 A Workplace in Transition; 4 Working the Deep-Sea Ship; 5 Recruitment; 6 Struggles for Protection and Control; 7 Capital, Labour, and Wages; 8 Home to the Sea; 9 An Industrial Workplace
N2  - 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
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