9781804293515 - Ahuja Ravi Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers Class Race and Maritime Capitalism in the Early 20th Century

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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.

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9781804293515

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1804293512

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