| Contents |
The nation's property: nineteenth-century sailors and the political economy of the Atlantic world -- Liberty before the mast : defining free labor in law and literature -- Wave of reform : the sailor's friend and the drift toward a welfare state -- The nationalist solution : the La Follette act of 1915 and the Janus Face of progressive reform -- Workers of the sea, unite? : the internationalist legacy of the pre-world war I years -- A sea of difference: the international labor organization and the search for common standards, 1919-1946 -- Cooperation and cash : labor's opportunity in a post-deregulatory era. |
| Local note | Little-357329--305131059941+ |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-257) and index. |
| LCCN | 2010037736 |
| ISBN | 9780807834503 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0807834505 (cloth : alk. paper) |
