| Seafaring Labour: The Merchant Marine of Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914 Contributor(s): Sager, Eric W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0773515232 ISBN-13: 9780773515239 Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press OUR PRICE: $31.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1996 Annotation: In this compassionate look at the effect of industrialization on the individual lives of sailors, Eric W. Sager examines the passing of the age of sail and how the life and working relationships of the able seaman were transformed as notions of craft and craftsmen were replaced by reliance on the skills and social relations of the new industrial workplace. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Canada - General - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 305.938 |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 6" W x 8.94" (1.14 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
