The Transformation of Maritime Professions

Karel Davids is Professor Emeritus of Economic and Social History at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He has published and taught on economic and social history, maritime history, the history of technology and global history.

Joost Schokkenbroek has been Executive Director of the Vancouver Maritime Museum since July 2017. Prior to this he was affiliated with The Kendall Whaling Museum in the USA (1988-1990) and Het Scheepvaartmuseum (The Dutch National Maritime Museum) in Amsterdam (1991-2017), where he worked as Chief Curator, in combination with a Professorship of Maritime History and Maritime Heritage at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. 

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Changes in maritime labour: Institutional, technological and spatial contexts.- Chapter 2: The human element in power-driven merchant ship propulsion since 1850: The British case.- Chapter 3: Technological change, institutions, and maritime labour: International reforms and their reception in Sweden and Finland, c.1850-1939.- Chapter 4: Changes in maritime labour in Greece during the transition from sail to steam, c. 1850-1917.- Chapter 5: Seamen in the city. Origins, residence and standard of living of Le Havre seamen from c. 1800 to the First Wold War.- Chapter 6: Reading shipboard space: the plans of ships serving the Netherlands East Indies, c.1850-1914.- Part II: Case studies of old maritime jobs.- Chapter 7: Reconfiguring authority at sea: Steamships and their captains in a Danish context, c.1850-1950.- Chapter 8: Feeding the fleet: Cooks in the Belgian merchant marine, c.1850-1930.- Part III:  Case studies of new maritime jobs.- Chapter 9: Elbowing their way: Engineers in the Spanish merchant marine, c.1850-1950.- Chapter 10: From the captain's tiger to the chief steward. Career patterns of the catering personnel on British passenger liners, 1860-1938.- Chapter 11: Surfing the waves. The rise and decline of radio operators in the Dutch mercantile marine in the twentieth century.- Chapter 12: Conclusion.