Strikes! African seamen, elder dempster and the government 1940–42
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9382996 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marika Sherwood (0000-0003-3671-3304, University of the Commonwealth Caribbean, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 130-145 |
| Publication date | 1994-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Immigrants & Minorities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-9288 • E-ISSN: 1744-0521 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02619288.1994.9974845 |
| OpenAlex | W2005855175 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 6 |
There were three strikes in Liverpool by African seamen working for Elder Dempster during the early years of the Second World War. Through the investigation of the 1940 strikers’ complaints it became evident that Elder Dempster had a four‐tier wage scale: at the bottom were Nigerians recruited in Nigeria; then Africans recruited in Freetown; third were Africans employed from Liverpool and at the top were European seamen, who were paid the National Maritime Board rates. All the government departments concerned as well as the National Union of Seamen had consented to the company's discriminatory wage policy
Government (linguistics · Nigerians · Political science · Wage · African history and culture studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Law · Medicine
Transnationalism and nationalism in the Nigerian Seamen's Union
Corporations and Local States
Seamen and the Nigerianization of Shipping in the Postcolonial Era
The Comintern, the CPGB, Colonies and Black Britons, 1920-1938
The Negotiations of Nigerian Seamen in the Transition from Colonialism to Independence
Maritime labour and subaltern geographies of internationalism
Harry O'Connell, maritime labour and the racialised politics of place
Mariner, renegade and castaway
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2017 (22) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |