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  1. 1Ninety Percent Of Everything Inside Shipping The Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes On Your Back Gas In Your Car And Food On Your Plate (2013)Ninety Percent Of Everything Inside Shipping The Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes On Your Back Gas In Your Car And Food On Your Plate (2013) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2013George boards the Maersk Kendal at Felixstowe and sails to Singapore. At the foot of the gangway, she can see the trucks and immense gantry cranes more easily than the workers operating them. Her reporting puts the crew back in the picture and gives you a way to connect a cheap shirt or television…0
  2. 2The Box (2006)The Box (2006) 7.4/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2006Start with a refitted tanker carrying fifty-eight containers from Newark to Houston in 1956. Then follow the money, dockworker bargaining, and shared standards that let the same box ride a truck, train, and ship. It’s an especially good account of how a cheaper way to move freight can mean…0
  3. 3Dockworker Power (2018)Dockworker Power (2018)Published Jan 1, 2018Cole compares Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area, where dockworkers had to contend with layoffs as container ships changed the work. He also follows workers who used their ability to stop loading ships to protest apartheid and other abuses. Read it to see what power workers can have at a point…0
  4. 4Crossing the Bay of BengalCrossing the Bay of BengalMonsoon winds set the rhythms of an older maritime world. Steam power and the nineteenth-century trade in crops such as rice and rubber changed the routes, and millions of Indian migrants crossed the bay under pressures that included drought and debt. Amrith makes it possible to read a shipping…0
  5. 5Between the Devil and the Deep Blue SeaBetween the Devil and the Deep Blue SeaRediker follows early eighteenth-century Anglo-American merchant seamen from ships with harsh discipline to waterfronts full of taverns, fights, and jails. Their time ashore belongs to the same working life as their time at sea. Start here if you want piracy and merchant sailing seen from the…0
  6. 6Black Jacks (1997)Black Jacks (1997)Published Jan 1, 1997Free and enslaved Black sailors worked on ships in the age of sail. For some, a berth meant wages, travel, and a way to bring news home, even as racial barriers shaped their chances on land and at sea. Read this to understand how a sailor’s mobility could matter to a whole community.0
  7. 7Saltwater SlaverySaltwater SlaverySmallwood follows captives from African ports and holding forts through the Middle Passage and into the markets of the Americas. It’s an account of how merchants priced and transported people, and how people forced onto ships tried to make sense of the voyage and rebuild ties after landing. Read it…0
  8. 8Slavery at Sea (2016)Slavery at Sea (2016)Published Jan 1, 2016Mustakeem uses ships’ logs and personal records to study what confinement aboard slave ships did to people of different ages and health. She pays particular attention to people often lost in the records, including nursing mothers, children, and the sick. The book makes the voyage itself a place…0
  9. 9The Saltwater Frontier (2015)The Saltwater Frontier (2015)Published Jan 1, 2015Along the coast between the Hudson River and Cape Cod, Algonquian-speaking people built boats, navigated, fished, and traded while European empires fought over the coast. Lipman follows those water routes to show how communities were connected and what colonists stood to gain by controlling them.…0
  10. 10Globalizing Labour?Globalizing Labour?Balachandran traces how Indian seafarers were recruited, where they worked, what they earned, and how they resisted employers. The chapters on recruiting and itineraries make it easier to see who supplied the people who kept European merchant ships running. It’s a more detailed choice if you want…0