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BRITISH SEAMEN'S MISSIONS AND SAILORS HOMES 1815 TO 1970 VOLUNTARY WELFARE PROVISION FOR SERVING SEAFARERS
Merged with duplicate record 10026.1/788 on 27.02.2017 by CS (TIS
Early state support of vocational education: the department of Science and art navigation schools, 1853–63
The poor man’s goldmine? : Career paths in Swedish and Finnish merchant shipping, c. 1840–1950
This article analyses the career paths of Swedish and Finnish sailors from the mid-19th to the
mid-20th century. The article shows that, for the most of the men, the seaman’s occupation was
just a passing phase before taking up a job on shore, but many of them also created a longlasting
and advancing career by going to sea. There was not necessarily, however, a clear
distinction between job opportunities at sea and those on shore in those days: men worked both
at sea and on shore. We therefore argue that an individual’s advancement in a maritime career
was a context-specific socio-economic phenomenon. In Scandinavia, work on board ships was
dependent on features that characterized the division of labour in a predominantly agricultural
domestic economy on land and emerging industrialization during the turn of the century. Here
we present an analysis of the career paths of almost 60,000 men recruited to serve on Swedish
and Finnish merchant vessels from the 1840s to late 1940s.peerReviewe