Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers PDF Download

Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers PDF full book. Access full book title Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers by Ravi Ahuja. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.

Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers

Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers PDF Author: Ravi Ahuja
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1804293539
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
A TRAGIC SHIPPING ACCIDENT OPENS A WINDOW ON RACIALIZED LABOUR MANAGEMENT IN AN AGE OF IMPERIALISM 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.
➤