Seafaring Labour: The Merchant Marine of Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914

By Eric W. Sager

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773506705
• ISBN13: 9780773506701
• Release Date: April 1989
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 352 Pages