Ravi Ahuja: Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers

Cover: 9781804293515 | Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers | Ravi Ahuja | Taschenbuch | 2025

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Beschreibung

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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Ravi Ahuja

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: ‘Lascar’ Seamen and ‘Racial Management’ under Steamship Capitalism

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

Acknowledgements
Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781804293515
ISBN-10:	1804293512
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Ahuja, Ravi
Hersteller:	Verso Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 153 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Ravi Ahuja
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.2025
Gewicht:	0,314 kg