The American Merchant Seaman and His Industry
The American Merchant Seaman and His Industry

Author: Craig J. Forsyth

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-04-21

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 1351813536

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The descriptive data in this book, first published in 1989, were obtained from participant observation and interviews with merchant seaman current and retired. In addition there is reprinted a complete set of the laws relating to American seaman between 1918-1970. Together they provide a comprehensive understanding of the historical events surrounding the American merchant seaman, the creation of maritime policy, and the policy itself.

Fourth Arm of Defense
Fourth Arm of Defense

Author: Salvatore R. Mercogliano

Publisher: Government Printing Office

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9780945274964

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This publication is the eighth in the series The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War. The publication focuses on the sealift and logistic operations during the war and includes a number of photographs as well as sidebars detailing specific people and ships involved in the logistic operations. This historical pictorial reference would be of interest to students, historians, members of the military, specifically the Navy, and military leaders, veterans, Vietnam War veterans, and the U.S. merchant marines.

Sweatshops at Sea
Sweatshops at Sea

Author: Leon Fink

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0807834505

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"Leon Fink, one of the world's best labor historians, has gone to sea and returned with a powerful yarn about the seafaring workers who built the global economy. Vividly told the breathtaking in scope, Sweatshops at Sea will be remembered as one of the most important histories of our time." Marcus Rediker, author The Slave Ship: A Human History. "Sweatshops at Sea is a masterful history that illuminates the issues of citizenship in a world of porous borders for a workforce that has always been both multinational and multiracial. Leon Fink's thoroughly researched, fascinating book provides readers with a fresh and invigorating perspective on globalization."---Nelson Lichtenstein, director, Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Looking for a Ship
Looking for a Ship

Author: John McPhee

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2011-04-01

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1429958111

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This is an extraordinary tale of life on the high seas aboard one of the last American merchant ships, the S.S. Stella Lykes, on a forty-two-day journey from Charleston down the Pacific coast of South America. As the crew of the Stella Lykes makes their ocean voyage, they tell stories of other runs and other ships, tales of disaster, stupidity, greed, generosity, and courage.

Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Maritime Industry
Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Maritime Industry

Author: Kenneth J. Blume

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2011-12-22

Total Pages: 614

ISBN-13: 0810879638

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In the Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Maritime Industry, author Kenneth J. Blume provides a convenient survey of this important industry from the colonial period to the present day: from sail to steam to nuclear power. This concise new reference work captures the key features of overseas, coastal, lake, and river shipping and industry. An introduction provides an overview of the industry while the dictionary itself contains more than four hundred cross-referenced entries on ships, shipping companies, famous personalities, and major ports. A number of appendixes, including statistics on foreign trade, maritime disasters, famous ships, and major ports, supplement the dictionary, and a comprehensive bibliography leads the researcher to further sources.

Rough Waters
Rough Waters

Author: Rodney P Carlisle

Publisher: Naval Institute Press

Published: 2017-01-15

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1682470873

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Rough Waters traces the evolution of the role of the U.S. merchant ship flag, and the U.S. merchant fleet itself. Rodney Carlisle looks at conduct and commerce at sea from the earliest days of the country, when battles at sea were fought over honor and the flag, to the current American-owned merchant fleet sailing under flags of convenience via foreign registries. Carlisle examines the world-wide use, legality, and continued acceptance of this practice, as well as measures to off-set its ill effects. Looking at the interwar period of 1919–1939, Carlisle examines how the practice of foreign registry of American-owned vessels began on a large scale, led by Standard Oil with tankers under the flag of the Free City of Danzig and followed by Panama. The work spells out how the United States helped further the practice of registry in Panama and Liberia after World War II. Rough Waters concludes with a look at how the practice of foreign registry shapes present-day commerce and labor relations.

Routledge Library Editions: Transport Economics
Routledge Library Editions: Transport Economics

Author: Various

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-07-29

Total Pages: 8157

ISBN-13: 1351782959

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This set of previously out-of-print titles is an essential reference collection on the topic of transport economics. Providing in-depth analysis on a variety of aspects, including the economics of the airfreight, shipping and rail industries, it also examines the economics of road transport and more focused areas such as containerisation.