Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers
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Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers

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

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers

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

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Verso
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781804293522
Topic
Historia
Subtopic
Historia militar y marítima

Table of contents

  1. Cover 
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents 
  5. Introduction: ‘Lascar’ Seamen and ‘Racial Management’ under Steamship Capitalism
  6. Chapter 1: Collision Course: British Merchant Shipping and the Loss of a Mail Steamer
  7. Chapter 2: Good Copy: The Savagery of Panic-Stricken ‘Natives’
  8. Chapter 3: Spelling Disaster: Class and Race When a Ship Goes Down
  9. Chapter 4: Indian Outrage: Who Speaks for the ‘Lascar’?
  10. Chapter 5: Lines of Defence: ‘Natives, Properly Led’
  11. Chapter 6: Discomforting Testimonies: Eight ‘Native Seamen’ in Court
  12. Chapter 7: Communication Collapse: The Steamship and ‘Naval Hindustani’
  13. Chapter 8: Fireroom Hierarchy: Stoking, Skill, and Status
  14. Chapter 9: Stoker’s Stigma: The Two Lives of the ‘Hairy Ape’
  15. Chapter 10: Gains of ‘Racial Management’: Manning Scales and Liner Schedules
  16. Chapter 11: The Break-Up: Findings, Rulings, and the Limits of ‘Racial Management’
  17. Chapter 12: Course Adjustment: The Names of the ‘Native’
  18. Acknowledgements
  19. Index