Contested and Dangerous Seas

Colin J. Davis explores labor history by comparing the experiences of trawlermen homeported in New England and Britain between the 1950s and the 1970s to understand how the men's lives were affected by the actions of their wives, local labor unions, politicians, and international organizations within the context of the Cold War, shipboard safety, the multinational exploitation of their fishing grounds, and overfishing of targeted species. Utilizing sources including interviews, commission and governmental agency reports, union records, legal testimonies, and diplomatic memos, Davis analyzes the challenges that fishermen from ports such as Gloucester and New Bedford in Massachusetts and their counterparts from Hull and Grimsby on England's North Sea coast faced as industrial-scale fishing ships appeared in their midst and as nations sought to protect fisheries adjacent to their shorelines. In his first three chapters, Davis describes the fishing grounds, capture and storage of fish, and structures of onboard labor

Agency (philosophy · Archaeology · Commission · Context (archaeology · Economics · Economy · Fishery · Fishing · Multinational corporation · Overfishing · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law