Seafaring labour : the merchant marine of Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914 / Eric W. Sager.

Sager argues that sailors were not misfits or outcasts but were divorced from society only by virtue of their occupation. The wooden ships were small communities at sea, fragments of normal society where workers lived, struggled, and often died. With the coming of the age of steam, the sailor became...

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Main Author: Sager, Eric W., 1946- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Kingston, Ont. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989.
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