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The Transformation of Maritime Professions

Old and New Jobs in European Shipping Industries, 1850–2000

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Editors:
  1. Karel Davids

    1. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  2. Joost Schokkenbroek

    1. Hong Kong Maritime Museum, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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  • 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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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    • Karel Davids, Joost Schokkenbroek
    Pages 1-10

  3. Changes in Maritime Labour: Institutional, Technological and Spatial Contexts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. The Human Element in Power-Driven Merchant Ship Propulsion Since 1850: The British Case

      • Alston Kennerley
      Pages 13-35

    3. Technological Change, Institutions and Maritime Labour: International Reforms and Their Reception in Sweden and Finland, c.1850–1939

      • Jari Ojala
      Pages 37-63

    4. Changes in Maritime Labour in Greece During the Transition from Sail to Steam, c. 1850–1917

      • Alkiviadis Kapokakis, Apostolos Delis
      Pages 65-94

    5. Seamen in the City. Origins, Residence and Standard of Living of Le Havre Seamen from c. 1800 to the First Wold War

      • Nicolas Cochard
      Pages 95-119

    6. Reading Shipboard Space: The Plans of Ships Serving the Netherlands East Indies, 1850–1914

      • Richard Guy
      Pages 121-144

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 285-288
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Karel Davids

  • Hong Kong Maritime Museum, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Joost Schokkenbroek

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: 978-3-031-27214-1Due: 01 June 2023

  • 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

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