Title Maritime Men of the Asia-Pacific : True-Blue Internationals Navigating Labour Rights, 1906-2006 / Diane Kirby ; with Lee-Ann Monk and Dmytro Ostapenko

Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource Series Studies in Labour History Studies in labour history (Liverpool University Press) Contents Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Sources, Spelling and Terminology -- Abbreviations -- 1 'By the Nature of Their Calling': Themes of Region, Race and Militancy -- 2 'Navigation as It Affects the Empire': Australasian Labour Standards and British Merchant Shipping -- 3 'The Commonwealth and the Lascars': Protecting Maritime Workers in a 'White Australia,' 1901 to 1914 -- 4 'To Break Down the Barriers Which Separate Races and Countries': Socialists, Maritime Unionists and Organising Internationally before 1920 5 'Our Duty Is to Foster a Spirit of Internationality': Maritime Unions and International Labour Organising in the Aftermath of War -- 6 '[T]o Ensure ... Fair Conditions of Labor': Navigating Class, Nation and Empire in the 1920s -- 7 'Seamen of the Orient': Globalising the ITF and Embracing Asia, c.1920s to the 1930s -- 8 'Lascar Seamen Stand up for Rights': Asserting Independence, c.1930s to 1949 -- 9 'Standards for All Seamen, Indian, Chinese and European': Internationalism in the Cold War Asia-Pacific, 1945 to c.1970 10 'Bogeymen of the Pacific': Trans-Pacific Dockworker Organising, 1940s to the 1960s -- 11 'Giving Us a Voice in World Affairs': Internationalising Leadership and Activism, 1960 to 1980 -- 12 'Protect[ing] Workers against Shoddy Foreign Companies': International Labourers and National Unionists, 1960s to 2000 -- 13 Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 11, 2023) Subject Merchant mariners -- Labor unions -- Oceania -- History Merchant mariners -- Labor unions -- Pacific Area -- History Labor laws and legislation -- Oceania Labor laws and legislation -- Pacific Area Labor laws and legislation Merchant mariners -- Labor unions Oceania Pacific Area Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Monk, Lee-Ann, author Ostapenko, Dmytro, author ISBN 1802076778 9781802076776

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