The transformation of maritime professions : old and new jobs in European shipping industries, 1850-2000 / Karel Davids, Joost Schokkenbroek, editors.
Davids, C. A., 1952- editor.; Schokkenbroek, J. C. A. (Joost C. A.), 1961- editor.
2023
HE821 .T73 2023
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Title The transformation of maritime professions : old and new jobs in European shipping industries, 1850-2000 / Karel Davids, Joost Schokkenbroek, editors.
ISBN 9783031272127 electronic book
3031272129 electronic book
9783031272110
3031272110
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27212-7
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (275 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and color).
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-27212-7 doi
Call Number HE821 .T73 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 387.5094
Summary 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 apply a 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. Karel Davids is Professor Emeritus of Economic and Social History at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He has published and taught on economic and social history, maritime history, the history of technology and global history. Joost Schokkenbroek has been Executive Director of the Vancouver Maritime Museum since July 2017. Prior to this he was affiliated with The Kendall Whaling Museum in the USA (1988-1990) and Het Scheepvaartmuseum (The Dutch National Maritime Museum) in Amsterdam (1991-2017), where he worked as Chief Curator, in combination with a Professorship of Maritime History and Maritime Heritage at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. .
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Schokkenbroek, J. C. A. (Joost C. A.), 1961- editor.
Series Palgrave studies in economic history.
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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 captains tiger to the chief steward. Career patterns of the catering personnel on British passenger liners, 18601938
Chapter 11: Surfing the waves. The rise and decline of radio operators in the Dutch mercantile marine in the twentieth century
Chapter 12: Conclusion.

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