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The Transformation of Maritime Professions: Old and New Jobs in European Shipping Industries, 1850-2000

The Transformation of Maritime Professions: Old and New Jobs in European Shipping Industries, 1850-2000

Davids, Karel
Schokkenbroek, Joost

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History

EconomicsLabor

ISBN10: 3031272110
ISBN13: 9783031272110
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: May 1 2023
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
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 passenger shipping went together with the creation of new tasks and functions and the marginalization or disappearance of traditional jobs and skills. This book presents case-studies on changes in different maritime professions between the middle of the nineteenth century and the end of the twentieth century, covering the shipping industries of a variety of seafaring countries in Europe. The subjects include changes in maritime labour at large, changes in specific groups of deck, catering or engine room personnel, such as captains, cooks, catering personnel, engineers, or radio-operators. A number of chapters employ a prosopographical or micro-historical approach, while others applya spatial perspective, analyze business records, materials from professional associations or distil information from large sets of quantitative data. This book will be of interest to academics and students of economic history, maritime and labour history.

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