Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers (eBook)

Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century

Ravi Ahuja (Autor)

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2024 | Ebook UK & RoW
272 Seiten
Verso (Verlag)
978-1-80429-352-2 (ISBN)

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When eighty-seven passengers and crew died in the shipwreck of the Royal Mail ship Egypt in 1922, the accident gave rise to a racist international press campaign against the employment of Indian seafarers, such as those who made up most of the ship's crew. This was not unusual at a time when a fifth of the British mercantile marine's workforce was recruited from the subcontinent. Ravi Ahuja explains the business logic behind a labour regime steeped in racist irrationalism and examines the scope for solidarity among a divided workforce in an age of imperialism - an issue that is no less relevant in our own time.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.10.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Amir Haider Khan • Colonialism • coolies • Eugene O’Neill • Global Labour History • imperialism • India • Joseph Conrad • Karl Marx • labour process • lascars • Maritime History • racial management • Racism • seamen • South Asia • steam shipping
• ISBN-10: 1-80429-352-0 / 1804293520
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80429-352-2 / 9781804293522