Overview
- Presents case-studies on changes in different maritime professions between 1850 and 2000
- Exemplifies the use of new, so far unexplored sources
- Allows comparisons between different branches of shipping and different maritime professions
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History (PEHS)
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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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Keywords
- Key advances in ship and marine engine design
- Economics of shipping operation
- Revolution in shipping technologies
- Impact of technological changes on shipping
- Transition from sail to steam in the Danish shipping industry
- Increased importance of below-deck labour.
- Changes in maritime labour force
- Swedish and Finnish shipping industries, c. 1850 – 1950
- British mercantile marine
Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Changes in Maritime Labour: Institutional, Technological and Spatial Contexts
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Case Studies of Old Maritime Jobs
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Case Studies of New Maritime Jobs
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Transformation of Maritime Professions
Book Subtitle: Old and New Jobs in European Shipping Industries, 1850–2000
Editors: Karel Davids, Joost Schokkenbroek
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27212-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-27211-0Published: 01 May 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-27214-1Published: 18 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-27212-7Published: 30 April 2023
Series ISSN: 2662-6497
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6500
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 288
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic History, Maritime Economics, Labor Economics, Labor History