TY - BOOK ID - 5531021 TI - Sweatshops at sea : merchant seamen in the world's first globalized industry, from 1812 to the present PY - 2011 SN - 9780807834503 0807834505 1469613697 1469603322 0807877808 9781469613697 9780807877807 9781469603322 PB - Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina, DB - UniCat KW - Merchant mariners KW - Merchant marine KW - Marins (Marine marchande) KW - Marine marchande KW - History KW - Histoire KW - Merchant marine - History. KW - Merchant marine --History. KW - Merchant mariners - History. KW - Merchant mariners --History. KW - Business & Economics KW - Labor & Workers' Economics KW - World history KW - Sea transport. Seaports KW - anno 1800-1999 KW - anno 2000-2009 KW - Oceans. Seas. Sea Link KW - History. KW - Merchant seamen KW - Personnel KW - Sailors KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5531021 AB - As the main artery of international commerce, merchant shipping was the world's first globalized industry, often serving as a vanguard for issues touching on labor recruiting, the employment relationship, and regulatory enforcement that crossed national borders. In Sweatshops at Sea, historian Leon Fink examines the evolution of laws and labor relations governing ordinary seamen over the past two centuries. The merchant marine offers an ideal setting for examining the changing regulatory regimes applied to workers by the United States, Great Britain, and, ultimately, an organize ER -