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Anyone studying the often romanticized, but realistically complex and difficult world of seafarers, needs to start with this book. It lays a fine framework from which to begin such a study.--The Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians <p/>

A history that is both a detailed and specific account of a particular labour force, and simultaneously an account of the changes that have transformed the maritime working world over the past 200 years. It is an exemplary study. -- Labour History Anyone studying the often romanticized, but realistically complex and difficult world of seafarers, needs to start with this book. It lays a fine framework from which to begin such a study. -- The Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians [Fink] writes with grace, humor and wit, and deftly skewers the academic jargon so many maritime historians use. . . . A polished academic work that will feature prominently at seminar tables and the bookshelves of the learned public as well. -- Sea Hi Anyone studying the often romanticized, but realistically complex and difficult world of seafarers, needs to start with this book. It lays a fine framework from which to begin such a study.--The Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians This book stands as a very successful model of global history.--The Historian An original, engaging, witty, and, yes, important study of seafarers and their struggle for improved working conditions. . . . This is truly an important book, and a well-written one.--Sea History Social historians of the sea will find much in this monograph with which to engage.--International Journal of Maritime History Fink helps us think about the historical roots of these limitations as we strive, as citizens as well as historians, to shape a more humane world.--Journal of American History A professional piece of work and a contribution to the field.--Labor [Fink] writes with grace, humor and wit, and deftly skewers the academic jargon so many maritime historians use. . . . A polished academic work that will feature prominently at seminar tables and the bookshelves of the learned public as well.--Sea History A meaningful contribution to labor and maritime history. . . . The future of maritime workers is hard to see. Their past, however, has never been so clear.--Journal of World History A history that is both a detailed and specific account of a particular labour force, and simultaneously an account of the changes that have transformed the maritime working world over the past 200 years. It is an exemplary study.--Labour History [This book] does an excellent job of exploring the tensions between maritime matters as part of a decidedly national project but composed of globalized, transnational workers.--Register of the Kentucky Historical Society [This book] does an excellent job of exploring the tensions between maritime matters as part of a decidedly national project but composed of globalized, transnational workers. -- Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Social historians of the sea will find much in this monograph with which to engage. -- International Journal of Maritime History A meaningful contribution to labor and maritime history. . . . The future of maritime workers is hard to see. Their past, however, has never been so clear. -- Journal of World History This book stands as a very successful model of global history. -- The Historian A professional piece of work and a contribution to the field. -- Labor Fink helps us think about the historical roots of these limitations as we strive, as citizens as well as historians, to shape a more humane world. -- Journal of American History An original, engaging, witty, and, yes, important study of seafarers and their struggle for improved working conditions. . . . This is truly an important book, and a well-written one. -- Sea History 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 and breathtaking in scope, Sweatshops at Sea will be remembered as one of the most important histories of our time. --Marcus Rediker, author of 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

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Leon Fink is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.

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